Falling Lithium Prices Are Making Electric Cars More Affordable
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Falling Lithium Prices Are Making Electric Cars More Affordable

An unexpected decline in the price of an essential battery material, along with those of other commodities, is good news for buyers. But experts disagree on how long low prices will last.
Toxic Chemical Rules Pose Test for Biden
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Toxic Chemical Rules Pose Test for Biden

Key industries — including some that the White House is backing through other policies — are lobbying to water down the first major new rules in a generation on chemicals that pose risks to humans.
A Hungarian Town Seethes Over a Giant Chinese Battery Plant
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A Hungarian Town Seethes Over a Giant Chinese Battery Plant

A $7.8 billion factory planned by a Chinese company in eastern Hungary has become divisive even within the party of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who championed it.