Can We Get Clean Energy Without Dirty Mines?

Global sales of electric vehicles more than doubled in 2021. Projections for this year are for another huge gain as more automakers introduce more models with increasing range. This is all good news for transitioning to a clean energy economy. But sourcing the materials needed for clean energy might not be so clean. Mining is the leading industrial polluter in the U.S., but the climate crisis demands a transition to technologies that require raw materials to be extracted. How can the world get the minerals it needs to mitigate the climate crisis without creating other ecological disasters in the process? 

Guests:

Morgan Bazilian, Director, Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines

Payal Sampat, Mining Program Director, Earthworks

Maureen Penjueli, Coordinator, Pacific Network on Globalisation

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