Good morning! Here's what's in today's Heatmap News AM:
1. Trump takes America's latest equity stake in USA Rare Earth, Inc. (Nasdaq: USAR).
2. Century Aluminum rejiggers its plans for the U.S.' first smelter in half a century by instead becoming a minority owner in an Oklahoma plant Dubai-based Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) is building.
3. The Labor Department's mining watchdog is no longer releasing inspection data on repeat offenders.
4. South Korea is building two new nuclear plants as the ruling Democratic Party, which previously tried to kill the industry, says it's committed to the previous administration's bullish atomic energy plans.
5. Reflective, the nonprofit aiming to promote geoengineering research, just released a new database that will help that goal.
PLUS: China's shrub border is keeping a desert in check.
https://heatmap.news/am/trump-usa-rare-earth