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One of the best road trips I’ve ever taken was a sightseeing tour of the Colorado River, where it straddles the California-Arizona state line. I stood at the edge of Imperial Dam near the Mexican border, which diverts water to the farm fields of the Imperial Valley, then drove north to Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, home to lots of birds. I walked along the river in Laughlin, Nev., where there’s a hotel called the Colorado Belle that looks like a boat, and in Needles, Calif., where Snoopy’s brother Spike lives.
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On December 9, 2020, the California Energy Commission (CEC)
appointed nine members of the new Blue Ribbon Commission on Lithium
Extraction in California (Lithium Valley Commission). The
appointments were made pursuant to Assembly Bill 1657 (Garcia,
Chapter 271, 2020) (AB 1657), which was signed into law by Governor
Newsom on September 29, 2020.
AB 1657 requires the CEC to establish the Lithium Valley
Commission to review, investigate, and analyze issues and potential
incentives regarding lithium extraction and use in California, and
submit a report to the Legislature documenting its findings and
recommendations, on or before October 1, 2022. AB 1657 also