The Energy Department will offer up to $1 billion to support mining and processing of critical minerals and manufacturing technologies in the United States.

The U.S. Department of Energy is offering nearly $1 billion in co-funded grants to boost domestic mining, processing, and manufacturing of critical minerals and battery metals, aiming to reduce reliance on imports,

The Trump administration is proposing nearly $1 billion in funding to speed the development of U.S. critical minerals and materials, used in everything from electric vehicle batteries to semiconductors,