As IFCA and fertilizer advocates continue to work through the effort to add phosphate and potash to the USGS Critical Minerals list, Many in the fertilizer industry clearly took note of Trump’s executive order entitled Unleashing American Energy, which includes
 
Section 9 excerpted below:
 
Sec. 9.Restoring America’s Mineral Dominance. 
 
(a)  The Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Agriculture, Administrator of the EPA, Chairman of CEQ, and the heads of any other relevant agencies, as appropriate, shall identify all agency actions that impose undue burdens on the domestic mining and processing of non-fuel minerals and undertake steps to revise or rescind such actions.
 
(b)  The Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture shall reassess any public lands withdrawals for potential revision.
 
(c)  The Secretary of the Interior shall instruct the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey to consider updating the Survey’s list of critical minerals, including for the potential of including uranium.
 
This is the first step in getting phosphate and potash listed on the Critical Minerals list.