Doug Burgum

So anyway, great, great progress going to make sure that U.S.

is secure relative to our position on critical minerals.

Well, there's been an attack on American energy in this country, but even longer than that, there's been an attack on mining in our country.

And just like President Trump says, drill, baby, drill, we've got to get back to mine, baby, mine.

The U.S.

graduated 36,000 lawyers last year and about 300 people with mining and metallurgical degrees.

China, of course, is not doing it cleaner than any else.

I mean, whether they're tearing up the Congo or Indonesia, child labor.

illegal cartels, criminal organizations, all of these things that are going on.

It's a dirty industry potentially for the environment, but there's a lot of corruption around that in part because countries like America or like those in Europe that have rules, that have EPAs, that can do things cleaner, better, safer, smarter, both in terms of the environment, in terms of the labor force, basically got out of this business.

And we've got to get, the free world's got to get back into the mining business and show that with innovation,

that we can do it, and we can do it in a way that protects the environment, protects the workers, and also then protects the economies of these countries.

And so this is a strategic importance for the United States to get back in.

And part of that is the permitting process.

We've put a stranglehold on permitting, but President Trump, we're breaking the logjam on permitting.

Big announcements coming around the endangerment finding, and this is going to be a huge issue.

A huge step forward in terms of getting projects done and keeping plants open in America.

Well, we will be making some more announcements on beautiful clean coal today, as President Trump likes to call it and should call it, because there's a coal plant running in America today.

It has survived an onslaught for 20 years.

They've taken everything, virtually everything out of the NOx, the SOx, anything that would be considered coal.