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By Xinhua writers Tan Jingjing, Huang Heng

The company exploring an Oregon lithium deposit is encouraged by efforts to bolster the U.S. critical minerals supply chain, but a mining pitch is still years away.

Judge refuses to block digging at NV-OR mine A Nevada tribe said the digging would disturb sacred burial grounds Author: A Nevada tribe said the digging would disturb sacred burial grounds Scott Sonner Associated Press RENO, Nev. — A federal judge has denied environmentalists request for a court order temporarily blocking the government from digging trenches for archaeological surveys at a mine planned near the Nevada-Oregon line with the biggest known U.S. deposit of lithium.  U.S. District...

Governors Wind Energy Coalition California’s electric car revolution, designed to save the planet, also unleashes a toll on it Source: By Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times  • Posted: Wednesday, July 21, 2021 The precious cargo on the ship docked in San Diego Bay was strikingly small for a vessel built to drag oil rigs out to sea. Machines tethered to this hulking ship had plucked rocks the size of a child’s fist from the ocean floor thousands of miles into the Pacific...

Leaders with the Hualapai Tribe claim that the lithium mine will "desecrate" their sacred cultural sites.

People rarely talk about the quiet on northern Nevada’s Thacker Pass, although besides the rolling, sage-filled hills below the Double H and Montana mountains and the empty, so-blue-it-hurts-a-little sky, the quiet demands your attention. The silence awes Wendelyn Muratore, who lives about 5 miles away from Thacker Pass on an alfalfa farm in Kings River Valley. The land surrounding her home is so quiet that after snow falls she can hear her neighbor’s footsteps crossing his yard a mile a w...

The rise of electric vehicles is disrupting life in a small Western community Sofia Jeremias © Spenser Heaps, Deseret News Martin Muratore surveys one of his alfalfa fields at his farm in Kings River Valley, Nev., on Thursday, April 1, 2021. People rarely talk about the quiet on northern Nevada’s Thacker Pass, although besides the rolling, sage-filled hills below the Double H and Montana mountains and the empty, so-blue-it-hurts-a-little sky, the quiet demands your attentio...

comments This post originally appeared on Grist. Grist is a nonprofit news agency working toward a planet that doesnt burn and a future that doesnt suck. Sign up to receive Grists top stories in your inbox. When Edward Bartell first learned that a lithium mine might be moving into his remote corner of northern Nevada, the longtime cattle rancher wasnt upset. "I was actually kind of excited about it," Bartell said. He knew that lithium is a key metal used in batteries for electric vehicles and t...

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The hastily approved project went forward without comment from the Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone Tribe. Image credit: Russel Albert Daniels / High Country News Feb. 18, 2021 From the print edition Editor’s note: In April, the Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone tribal council voted unanimously to withdraw the tribe from its agreement with Lithium Nevada, based on a petition from tribal members. In the Great Basin Desert of northern Nevada and southern Oregon, Thacker...