It’s Time to Update our Mining Laws for a Clean Energy Future
There is a way to electrify our cars, trucks, and buses without replicating the toxic burdens that our current energy system imposes on certain communities. In fact, there’s an obvious place to start: Reform the U.S. law that has allowed the mining industry to pollute freely for a century and a half.
We know that to save our planet from the climate crisis and insulate ourselves from volatile energy prices, we must rapidly build out electric vehicles, charging infrastructure, solar panels, and wind turbines to power our communities to a clean energy future. We know this transition depends on critical minerals like lithium and cobalt, which are in the batteries that power electric vehicles and store clean energy.