By NE Washington News |
Jul 31, 2024
Washington, D.C. — House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Energy, Climate, and Grid Security Subcommittee Chair Jeff Duncan (R-SC), and Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Subcommittee Chair Buddy Carter (R-GA) sent a letter to Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm urging the DOE to prioritize onshoring critical mineral supply chains. This follows the Chinese Communist Party’s July 1 declaration that rare earth metals were “property of the state.”