As the world rapidly builds renewable energy infrastructure and transportation networks, the critical minerals' sourcing, processing, and trading will have profound economic, environmental, and geopolitical implications. Ensuring the critical minerals’ supply meets ever-rising demand while navigating the mineral supply chain’s impacts on the environment and society is a daunting challenge.
This March 30 story details tension within the United States'
, swirling around whether and how the program should target resources to communities at greatest risk of damage from severe weather and energy poverty.
In the American Southeast, oil and gas developers have shown interest in learning the economics of offshore wind. States and the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management have wanted to encourage this interest. This memo sets out steps for state-federal cooperation to encourage offshore wind deployment around and across the...
This January 24 analysis turns up a poorly kept secret: Republicans who voted against the job-boosters in the Inflation Reduction Act are seeing jobs flow to their district thanks to the law.
A long November 17 audio report details one grant from a $350 million Federal batch to develop recycling and reuse of car batteries in a troubled Chicago neighborhood.
