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Governing Critical Mineral Mining and the Clean Energy Transition.

Earlier this month, Program Scientist Scott Odell, head of the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative's Mining and Circular Economy program, spoke on a panel at Stockholm University titled "Governing Critical Raw Materials and the Energy Transition: Challenges for Socio-Environmental Sustainability."

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