Session: Addressing Society’s Urgent Need for Critical Minerals: From Policy to Practice (GSA Connects 2023 Meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

Session No. 161

Tuesday, 17 October 2023: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Ballroom B/C (David L Lawrence Convention Center)

P3. Addressing Society’s Urgent Need for Critical Minerals: From Policy to Practice

GSA Geology and Society Division; GSA Energy Geology Division; GSA Environmental and Engineering Geology Division; GSA Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division; GSA Geology and Public Policy Committee; Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) Center for Critical Minerals Strategy; International Association for Promoting Geoethics

Lily Jackson, Erin Phillips, Franciszek Hasiuk, Danielle N. Woodring and James Heller, PG, Conveners

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Start Time

8:00 AM

Welcome And Introduction to Slido Polling Tool

161-1

8:15 AM

CRITICAL MINERALS IN THE UNITED STATES: CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

RYKER, Sarah J., U.S. Geological Survey, Office of the Director, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr, Reston, VA 20192

161-2

8:40 AM

ENABLING MINERAL RECOVERY FROM UNCONVENTIONAL SOURCES: FEDERAL R&D TO TRANSFORM AMERICA’S CRITICAL MINERAL DEPENDENCE INTO DOMESTIC ABUNDANCE

THOMAS, Burt, Geochemstry Team, DOE NETL, 1450 SW Queen Ave, Albany, OR 97321

9:00 AM

Message from Senator Manchin, Chairman, United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

161-3

9:10 AM

EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT AT THE THACKER PASS LITHIUM CLAYSTONE DEPOSIT, NORTHERN NV: UNLOCKING A DOMESTIC ENERGY REVOLUTION

HAMPTON, Rachel, Lithium Americas Corp., 5310 Kietzke Lane, Suite 200, Reno, NV 89511

161-4

9:35 AM

ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND CRITICAL MINERALS, A DOWNSTREAM SUPPLY CHAIN PERSPECTIVE ON CURRENT US POLICIES

WEST, Dan, Seattle, WA 98116

9:55 AM

Message from Senator Barrasso, Ranking Member, United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

161-5

10:05 AM

UPDATING PERMITTING, NEPA, AND THE WAY WE APPROACH MINING

RUPLE, John, Council on Environmental Quality, Executive Office of the President, Washington, DC 20506

161-6

10:30 AM

FROM STREAMLINING TO SOPHISTICATION: THREE COUNTERINTUITIVE PROPOSITIONS FOR NAVIGATING THE CRITICAL MINERALS POLICY DEBATE

KLINGER, Julie, Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716

10:50 AM

Break

11:00 AM

Moderated Panel and Discussion

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