President Trump Signs Executive Order Expanding Rare Earths Mining
In a bid to expand the production of rare-earth minerals domestically in the U.S., President Trump has signed an executive order to reduce U.S. dependence on China for those critical minerals. The executive order pronounces a national emergency specifically for the mining sector and it seeks to expedite the development of domestic mines through activating provisions in the Defense Production Act. The Interior Department is tasked with seeing how this can happen. In the recent past, the federal government has used this same law to boost the production of the different medical supplies which are needed in the fight against…
