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Policies and Regulation
The US House has passed the bipartisan DOMINANCE Act to strengthen allied cooperation on critical minerals and reduce dependence on China, which controls approximately 90% of global rare earth processing capacity, as…
Policies and Regulation
Carmarthenshire Council has refused the last live opencast coal mining application in the UK, rejecting Bryn Bach Coal's Glan Lash extension on environmental grounds and leaving no active coal mine applications anywhere…
Policies and Regulation
Kazakh exporters of aluminum and steel products may face more than €100 million in annual costs under the EU’s new CBAM carbon regulation system.
Policies and Regulation
A new report accuses the EU of weakening environmental safeguards to fast-track industrial and energy projects across Europe.
Policies and Regulation
The EU has agreed the Critical Medicines Act, requiring member states to diversify pharmaceutical supply chains, expand domestic production and coordinate emergency stockpiles to reduce dangerous dependence on single-source suppliers.
Policies and Regulation
France has called an emergency G7 ministerial meeting on critical minerals and announced a national plan targeting 100% of European heavy rare earth oxide demand by 2030, as Paris pushes for an…
Policies and Regulation
We are moving from a system of running costs—buying oil and gas to keep the lights on—to a system of capital costs, where the minerals we bake into our technology define our…
Policies and Regulation
The EU's ability to meet its 2030 critical raw material targets is being threatened by investment uncertainty and regulatory fragmentation. A new policy brief from 11 Horizon Europe projects argues that with…
Policies and Regulation
Kazakhstan has launched eight new non-ferrous metal processing projects in 2026 and is developing a further 34 across copper, aluminium, zinc and tungsten, with a total investment pipeline of 6.9 trillion tenge…
Policies and Regulation
Turkey's energy minister has announced the imminent launch of a national critical minerals roadmap centred on the Beylikova rare earth project, where a pilot plant is already operational and moving toward industrial-scale…