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DOE Lab, partners find high concentrations of rare earth elements in American coal basins

Green Car Congress

Concentrations of rare earths at 300 ppm are integral to the commercial viability of extracting REEs from coal and coal by-products, making NETL’s finding significant in the effort to develop economical domestic supplies of these elements. The current difficulties and high expenses associated with REE extraction has left the U.S.

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Profiteering Hampers U.S. Grid Expansion

Cars That Think

About 40 corporations, valued at a trillion dollars, own the vast majority of transmission lines in the United States. A transmission network contains webs of connections, which create a reliable, redundant power-supply system of massive scale. Their grip over the backbone of U.S. grids demands public scrutiny and accountability.

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