The White House is developing an executive order intended to ease shortages of minerals needed for green technology by invoking the Defense Production Act (DPA), according to a draft of the order seen by The Intercept.
The draft order, which is classified as being in the “pre-decisional” phase, reportedly that “ensuring robust, resilient, and sustainable domestic industrial base to meet the requirements of the clean energy economy is essential to our national security,” the Intercept reported Thursday. The order also reportedly encourages “domestic mining, beneficiation, and value-added processing” of key minerals for production of clean technologies like batteries for electric vehicles, which the order reportedly characterizes as “essential to national defense.”
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