The Biden administration is proposing dropping uranium from the critical minerals list, reversing the Trump administration.
A Trump-era executive order required the federal government to publish a list of critical minerals as part of an effort to boost mining.
On the list, published in 2018, the Trump administration included uranium, which is used to produce nuclear power.
But a new draft of the list from the Biden administration excludes uranium. The administration said the mineral couldn’t be evaluated for the list because of a 2020 law that excluded “fuel minerals” from the definition of critical minerals...