The Biden Administration recognized the need to secure defense-critical supply chains of rare earth minerals, releasing a series of policy documents and statements to this effect. However, not every government agency is completely on board. As The Heritage Foundation has documented, both the Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency have blocked mining projects across the country that would have made the United States less dependent on China for these critical minerals. Ironically, these critical minerals are also a key component of the green technologies that the Biden Administration has championed. Refusing to extract them in the United States and relying instead on Chinese-owned mines is one of the worst examples of “NIMBYism” in modern politics.