The Department of Energy said the U.S. is taking a 5% equity ownership in Lithium Americas, a company that’s working to open up one of the world’s largest lithium mines at Thacker Pass in Nevada.
Cassandra Profita / OPB The Bureau of Land Management on Monday announced its approval of a controversial lithium mining exploration project in southeast Oregon’s Malheur County near the Nevada state ...
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The scramble for lithium

Thea Riofrancos’s Extraction tells the story of how a rare earth mineral became the focus of a worldwide battle over the future of green energy and, by extension, capitalism. In April 2021, the ...