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The Salton Sea geothermal field in California potentially holds enough lithium to meet all of America’s domestic battery needs, with even enough left over to export some of it. But how much of that lithium can be extracted in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way? And how long will the resource last? These are just a few of the questions that researchers hope to answer in a new project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Former Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen joins a team that also includes former Rep. Al Wynn (D-Md.).

Governors Wind Energy Coalition The Lithium Gold Rush: Inside the Race to Power Electric Vehicles Source: By Ivan Penn and Eric Lipton, photographs by Gabriella Angotti-Jones, New York Times • Posted: Sunday, May 9, 2021 A race is on to produce lithium in the United States, but competing projects are taking very different approaches to extracting the vital raw material. Some might not be very green. The Salton Sea is one of numerous new mining proposals in a global gold ...

.  Atop a long-dormant volcano in northern Nevada, workers are preparing to start blasting and digging out a giant pit that will serve as the first new large-scale lithium mine in the United States in more than a decade — a new domestic supply of an essential ingredient in electric car batteries and renewable energy. The mine, constructed on leased federal lands, could help address the nearly total reliance by the United States on foreign sources of lithium. But the project, known as Lithium...

Synopsis The fight over the Nevada mine is emblematic of a fundamental tension surfacing around the world: Electric cars and renewable energy may not be as green as they appear. Reuters Lithium extraction from brine has long been used in Chile, Bolivia and Argentina, where the sun is used over nearly two years to evaporate water from sprawling ponds. Atop a long-dormant volcano in northern Nevada, workers are preparing to start blasting and digging out a giant pit that will serve as the first n...