Anna Littlefield, Morgan Bazilian and Simon Lomax of the Payne Institute for Public Policy wrote this opinion piece about how Colorado is ahead of the curve when it comes to the energy transition.

In relatively small markets for critical minerals, it remains unclear if Washington will be able to jump-start investment or have to settle for subsidizing projects that can’t stand up on their own, said Rod Eggert, an economics professor at the ....

“If we’re talking about critical metals and materials, we’re so far behind that it’s crazy,” says Corby Anderson, a professor at the Colorado School of Mines. “It’s the dichotomy of the current administration—they have incentives for electric ....

"We are terrible and very slow at building infrastructure of any kind," said Morgan Bazilian, a professor of public policy at the Colorado School of Mines. But given the mining industry's history, tribes and environmental groups have reason for ....

Robots would prospect the area to determine where to mine. That reconnaissance would be aimed at doing as little damage as possible, said Jamal Rostami, a professor of mining engineering at the Colorado School of Mines.

“We would be foolish to limit our thinking that that kind of thing is impossible,” said Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines. “If you keep ratcheting up your tit-for-tat, that’s one area ....

"We see some positive signs of diplomacy, but they don’t appear to be influencing this sort of downward, tit-for-tat spiral," said Morgan Bazilian, the director of the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines.

“The entire political system is very taken with the fact that China dominates the overall space, and it’s become one of the only areas of roughly bipartisan agreement,” said Morgan Bazilian, the director of the Payne Institute at the Colorado School ....

"While they don't have dominance across all the mineral mining itself, they are very strong and have made a lot of investments over a long period of time in companies that do that mining," said Morgan Bazilian, a professor at the Colorado School of ....

Corby Anderson, a metallurgist at the Colorado School of Mines, said the Nevada mine would be an important domestic source of lithium, which the U.S. currently imports primarily from South America now.