02/06/2025 at 10:00AM
On Thursday, February 6, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., in Room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources will hold an oversight hearing titled “Now Ore Never: The Importance of Domestic Mining for U.S. National Security.”
Witnesses
- Dr. Morgan Bazilian, Director, Payne Institute for Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO *Jeremy Harrell, Chief Executive Officer, ClearPath Action, Washington, DC *. Mckinsey Lyon, Vice President, External Affairs, Perpetua Resources, Donnelly, ID
- Dr. Dustin Mulvaney, Professor, Environmental Studies Department, San José State University, San Jose, CA
On December 20, 2017, President Trump issued Executive Order (EO) 13817, entitled “A Federal Strategy to Ensure Secure and Reliable Supplies of Critical Minerals,” which directed the Department of the Interior (DOI), in coordination with other agencies, to publish a list of minerals determined to be “critical,” also referred to as the Critical Minerals List (CML).
On day one of his second term, President Trump further prioritized efforts to secure mineral supply chains by releasing EO 14154, entitled “Unleashing American Energy,” which directs federal agencies to revise and rescind agency actions that impose undue burdens on domestic mining and processing capacity and instructs the Secretary of the Interior to consider updating the CML, including the potential for listing uranium.