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No, America’s battery plant boom isn’t going bust – construction is on track for the biggest factories, with thousands of jobs planned

  • Written by James Morton Turner, Professor of Environmental Studies, Wellesley College
imageWorkers install battery packs in a BMW X5 in South Carolina. A new battery plant under construction nearby will supply BMW factories.BMW

The United States is in the midst of the biggest boom in clean energy manufacturing investments in history, spurred by laws like the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act...

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