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This is the first time both Clarios and FedEx have been recognized for this award. Clarios is one of only 8 honorees in the Automotive industry and FedEx is the only honoree in the Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry for this year. In 2023, 135 honorees were recognized spanning 19 countries and 46 industries, according to Ethisphere. 

“Li-Cycle lives up to the RBC’s Green Principles by putting the circularity in the circular economy and creating a new life for the critical minerals in lithium-ion batteries,” said Steve Christensen, Executive Director of the Responsible Battery Coalition

The RBC issued the following statement on the public-private partnership Li-Bridge’s “Building a Robust and Resilient U.S. Lithium Battery Supply Chain” report.

Since last year's State of the Union Address, the federal government has taken major first steps to lay the groundwork for a closed-loop recycling system for next-generation EV Batteries. It is important that America continue to innovate to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of key battery materials and advance a cleaner economy

Whether it’s advanced batteries for EVs or for energy storage, foreign pressures on strategic resources and the global supply chain are at odds with our domestic energy policies and ambitions.

We would like to publicly thank Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy for his long-standing and passionate support for global lead pollution prevention in low- and middle-income countries.

The Responsible Battery Coalition (RBC) today announced the launch of a comprehensive research project with the University of Michigan Center for Sustainable Systems to compare the total cost of ownership of gas and electric vehicles (EVs).

The Inflation Reduction Act signed into law by President Biden this month contains $3 billion to help the U.S. Postal Service decarbonize its mail-delivery fleet and shift to electric vehicles. On the heels of the Aug. 16 bill-signing ceremony at the White House, a new University of Michigan study

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Responsible Battery Coalition (RBC), a coalition of leading battery industry and battery-use stakeholders, issued the following statement regarding the incentives to stimulate wider adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) contained in the Inflation Reduction Act signed into law by President Joe Biden today:

Backhaul Alaska removed 100,000 pounds of spent vehicles and equipment batteries from bush communities. On the phone to talk about this work today are Dr. Lynn Zender, who is the executive director of Zender Environmental, and John Kyte with the Responsible Battery Coalition, where he’s the director of communications and programs

Anchorage, AK — The Responsible Battery Coalition (RBC) today applauded Backhaul Alaska’s successful 2021 program, which retrieved and recycled approximately 100,000 pounds of spent lead acid batteries from more than three dozen remote Alaskan communities.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Responsible Battery Coalition (RBC) today applauded the release of new research on improving electric delivery vehicle charging strategies from the Center for Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability. The study found that electrifying vehicles is an effective way to lower a delivery fleet’s greenhouse gas emissions and may also lower a delivery fleet’s cost over the lifetime of the vehicle. A link to the study can be found here.

California has done more than any other state to facilitate the widespread adoption of electric vehicles, and it recently announced new measures to do so again. This time, however, the state is pursuing an EV policy whose tradeoffs have not yet been sufficiently evaluated.

In this installment of the Five Questions, Five Answers podcast, Birgit Matthiesen, Antonio J. Rivera, and James Kim invite Steve Christensen, the executive director of the Responsible Battery Coalition, to discuss how the USMCA impacts the North American battery industry.