Sarah Montalbano and Debra Struhsacker will be discussing American Experiment’s recent report, “Mission Impossible: Mineral Shortages and the Broken Permitting Process Put Net Zero Goals Out of Reach,” in a webinar on November 15, 2-3 p.m. CT/3-4 p.m. ET. The webinar is being cohosted by the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America and the Women’s Mining Coalition.
Register at the Eventbrite link below if you’d like to join us. If you can’t make it, I hope to post a recording here soon.
Mining has never been more important to the future of the U.S. than now. Federal and state governments are mandating ever-stricter requirements for wind and solar electricity generation and setting ambitious targets for vehicle electrification. Artificial intelligence (AI) data center demands on the electricity grid are causing the first rise in electricity demand in two decades. At the same time, federal regulators are actively denying permits and creating rules to slow exploration and development. Policy roadblocks, including the broken permitting process under the National Environmental Policy Act, threaten domestic mining, conventional and renewable energy, transmission lines, and other infrastructure projects the U.S. will need to achieve its net-zero ambitions.
Debra Struhsacker and Sarah Montalbano are coauthors of the report “Mission Impossible: Mineral Shortages and the Broken Permitting Process Put Net Zero Goals Out of Reach” for Center of the American Experiment. Ms. Struhsacker is an independent environmental permitting and government relations consultant, one of the founders of the Women’s Mining Coalition, and a longtime member of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America. Ms. Montalbano is an energy policy fellow at American Experiment and a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum Center for Energy and Conservation.
