{"id":1217239,"date":"2022-01-14T18:50:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T23:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217239"},"modified":"2022-01-14T18:50:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T23:50:22","slug":"senators-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-end-us-reliance-on-chinese-minerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senators-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-end-us-reliance-on-chinese-minerals\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators Introduce Bipartisan Legislation To End US Reliance On Chinese Minerals"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenators-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-end-us-reliance-on-chinese-minerals%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217239&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Republican and Democratic senator introduced legislation Friday that aims to end U.S. reliance on rare-earth metals sourced from and produced in China.<\/p>\n<p>The Restoring Essential Energy and Security Holdings Onshore for Rare Earths (REEShore) Act would prevent supply disruptions and bolster domestic production of the minerals, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cotton.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/cotton-kelly-introduce-bill-to-end-reliance-on-china-for-rare-earth-elements\">according<\/a> to Sens. Tom Cotton and Mark Kelly, the bill\u2019s sponsors. They said the legislation is important for American national security and development of advanced technologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese Communist Party has a chokehold on global rare-earth element supplies, which are used in everything from batteries to fighter jets,\u201d Cotton said in a statement. \u201cEnding America\u2019s dependence on the CCP for extraction and processing of these elements is critical to winning the strategic competition against China and protecting our national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The REEShore Act would order the Department of Defense and Department of the Interior to create a national stockpile of rare-earth metals by 2025, according to the announcement. The Department of Energy controls a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/23\/joe-biden-strategic-petroleum-reserve-critics-gas-prices\/\">strategic reserve of crude oil<\/a>, which was created in the 1970s. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/10\/environmentalists-climate-change-renewable-energy-mining-resources\/\">(RELATED: Environmentalists Are Blocking The US From Controlling Its Renewable Energy Future)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The legislation would further require disclosure of the origin of all rare-earth metals used for defense technology. Developers wouldn\u2019t be allowed to use Chinese rare-earths for defense equipment under the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a 25-year Navy veteran who served in the South China Sea, I know just how critical it is to invest in our nation\u2019s defense and technology capabilities,\u201d Kelly said. \u201cOur bipartisan bill will strengthen America\u2019s position as a global leader in technology by reducing our country\u2019s reliance on adversaries like China for rare earth elements.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7353294\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7353294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly introduces Vice President Kamala Harris at an event on Dec. 1. (Jim Watson\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Overall, China controls about 55% of the world\u2019s rare-earth mining capacity and 85% of global mineral refining, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/100-day-supply-chain-review-report.pdf#page=9\">according<\/a> to a White House supply chain report published in June. By comparison, the U.S. produced just 12% of rare-earth metals, a 2019 estimate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrcan.gc.ca\/our-natural-resources\/minerals-mining\/minerals-metals-facts\/rare-earth-elements-facts\/20522\">concluded<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Climate activists and many Democratic lawmakers in the U.S. have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/10\/environmentalists-climate-change-renewable-energy-mining-resources\/\">favored restrictions<\/a> on domestic mining, citing the importance of protecting the environment.<\/p>\n<p>But rare-earth elements \u2014 like yttrium, lanthanum, thulium and holmium \u2014 are key for more than 200 high-tech products including cell-phones, electric vehicles, radar and sonar systems, X-ray machines, guidance systems and lasers, a U.S. Geological Survey release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americangeosciences.org\/critical-issues\/faq\/what-are-rare-earth-elements-and-why-are-they-important\">noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Congressional Western Caucus and House Natural Resources Republicans hosted a roundtable on the implications of U.S. mining policy. Several House Republicans and business leaders explained the importance of bolstering the American mining industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs global demand is growing to meet the needs of technological development, especially with minerals needed for alternative sources of energy, it\u2019s time we start responsibly sourcing them here in the United States instead of relying on foreign, and often hostile, nations for them,\u201d said Republican Minnesota Rep. Pete Stauber, the ranking member of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican and Democratic senator introduced legislation Friday that aims to end U.S. reliance on rare-earth metals sourced from and produced in China.The Restoring Essential Energy and Security Holdings Onshore &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}