Uranium for Energy Independence Act of 2025

This bill would make uranium an official “critical mineral” for the United States. It says uranium must be treated as if it was on the 2022 U.S. Geological Survey critical minerals list and kept on all future federal critical minerals lists under the Energy Act of 2020, even though fuel minerals are normally excluded.

Key points:

• What changes: Uranium is declared a critical mineral for federal purposes and must appear on current and future critical minerals lists.
• How it works: It overrides rules that usually leave fuel minerals off the list and ties uranium’s status to the official lists managed under the Energy Act of 2020.
• When: It applies to the 2022 list (as if uranium had been on it at publication) and to every list published after that.