{"id":3371,"date":"2022-03-31T18:26:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T18:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/biden-to-invoke-defense-production-act-for-electric-vehicle-battery-materials-the-hill\/"},"modified":"2022-03-31T18:26:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T18:26:11","slug":"biden-to-invoke-defense-production-act-for-electric-vehicle-battery-materials-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/31\/biden-to-invoke-defense-production-act-for-electric-vehicle-battery-materials-the-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden to invoke Defense Production Act for electric vehicle battery materials &#8211; The Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Biden is set to invoke the Defense Production Act (DPA) as early as this week to step up production of minerals used to&nbsp;manufacture electric vehicle batteries, a source familiar the plans confirmed to The Hill.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biden is set to issue a presidential determination to stoke domestic production of the minerals, which are used for both stationary batteries and vehicles. The person emphasized that the production will not bypass existing permitting or environmental review processes.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The addition of&nbsp;certain minerals, including lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel and manganese, to the list of items covered under the law could give mining companies access to some $750 million under the DPA\u2019s Title III fund, the person told The Hill.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The DPA, initially passed during the Korean War to boost aluminum and titanium production, grants the president authority to order domestic production ramped up of certain supplies. Former President Trump invoked it during the COVID-19 pandemic for meat production, while Biden used it shortly after taking office to ramp up production of pandemic-related supplies.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The person familiar told The Hill the White House will implement the order in collaboration with the Energy and Interior departments. The law will not be invoked for loans or direct purchases but rather funding for \u201cfeasibility studies, co-product and by-product production at current operations, and productivity\/safety modernizations.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As gas prices increase amid the Ukraine conflict, environmental groups have frequently called for the Biden administration to invoke the DPA to aid the development of alternative and renewable fuels.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bipartisan members of Congress have also backed the idea. Earlier this month, Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), James Risch (R-Idaho) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) called for Biden to invoke the DPA for battery materials.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They specifically cited the near-monopoly Chinese companies hold on production of the materials in question, writing, \u201cAllowing our foreign mineral dependence to persist is a growing threat to U.S. national security, and we need to take every step to address it.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><br \/> \t\tThe Hill has removed its comment section, as there are many other forums for readers to participate in the conversation. We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter.\t<br \/>THE HILL 1625 K STREET, NW SUITE 900 WASHINGTON DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 TEL | 202-628-8503 FAX<br \/>\u00a9 1998 &#8211; 2022 Nexstar Inc. | All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/600401-biden-to-invoke-defense-production-act-for-electric-vehicle-battery\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden is set to invoke the Defense Production Act (DPA) as early as this week to step up production of minerals used to&nbsp;manufacture electric vehicle batteries, a source familiar the plans confirmed to The Hill.&nbsp;Biden is set to issue a presidential determination to stoke domestic production of the minerals, which are used for both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}