NEWS: The DOE is dishing out $500M for homemade critical minerals and batteries. 🥧

The funding is headed for seven projects, including $100M each for lithium extraction company Lilac Solutions and critical mineral refiner Nth Cycle. 

The signal: President Trump wants the US to become the world’s “minerals superpower”—and reduce our reliance on China for the materials necessary for EVs, energy storage, and semiconductors.