{
  "id": 12729,
  "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108687",
  "title": "Critical Minerals: Reducing U.S. Import Reliance with Substitution and Recycling Technologies",
  "summary": "What GAO Found Technologies like batteries and semiconductors are essential to the U.S. economy but rely on imports of lithium, gallium, and other critical minerals. GAO found that substitution and recycling technologies could help reduce U.S. reliance on these imports. But progress is likely to take many years in some cases. Potential for technologies to reduce critical mineral import reliance For batteries, substitution and recycling technologies offer near-term potential. For example, using l",
  "authors": null,
  "category": "policy",
  "topics": "jobs-economy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-22T11:10:08.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-23T05:10:49.458Z",
  "source_slug": "x-us-gao-reports",
  "source_name": "US GAO Reports",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.gao.gov",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12729",
  "original_url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108687",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}