Researchers say the aggressive timeline of the Inflation Reduction Act may be unrealistic.
as a case study. The South American nation is a non-FTP country that provided 59% of the 2,618 tons of lithium mineral the US imported in 2019. Argentina does not offer the labour and environmental protections the US requires of FTP partners, but any minerals acquired from the country would still count if they were processed domestically.
“We have ostensibly good labor protections for miners, but that’s not the case everywhere. What are the ethical implications of using minerals from other places?” Dunn pointed out. “And then, are we going to be really serious about recycling? because we’re clearly not with plastics. We have to be really serious. Investment inDunn and Trost also raised concerns about the use of a market value-based target.
The environmental effects of critical minerals acquisition are physically tied to the amount of mineral produced rather than its market value. Many non-critical minerals central to batteries are mainly produced outside the US, raising supply risks.
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