Congress tightens U.S. manufacturing rules after battery technology ends up in China

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An employee examines a vanadium flow battery stack in the Battery Reliability Test Laboratory at PNNL. Andrea Starr/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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A new federal law, passed after the Department of Energy allowed the export of taxpayer-funded battery technology to China, aims to tighten restrictions on sending such government discoveries abroad.

Initially, the “Invent Here, Make Here Act” will apply only to programs in the Department of Homeland Security. But the law’s sponsors in Congress say they plan to expand

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