Joe Biden s Buying Metals Abroad Could End Controversial Mining Projects
On 5/25/21 at 5:36 PM EDT
Officials within President Joe Biden s administration are working on a plan to collect the materials needed for energy-efficient vehicles without ostracizing environmentalists key to the Democratic voter base, who are often opposed to domestic mining projects, Reuters reported Tuesday.
Instead of mining materials needed to build electric vehicles domestically, two unnamed administration officials told Reuters Biden will focus on purchasing the metals overseas and bring them into the U.S. Once the raw materials arrive, American workers will turn them into things like batteries, so electric vehicles can be built.
Courtesy of Russ McSpadden/Center for Biological Diversity
Local activists attended a shareholder s meeting Friday of one of the parent groups of Resolution Copper, the company proposing to make Oak Flat, an Apache religious site near Superior, Arizona, into a copper mine.
Two of the people who virtually attended the Rio Tinto meeting in London were Roger Featherstone and Henry Munoz, the chair of the Concerned Citizens & Retired Miner’s Coalition. Featherstone is the director of the Arizona Mining Reform Coalition. Both of them opposed the mining project at Oak Flat and submitted comments asking when Rio Tinto would abandon the project.
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