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Article: When Land I Love Holds Lithium: Max Wilbert on Thacker Pass, Nevada - In 2020, after learning about a proposed lithium mine in Nevada, Max started Protect Thacker Pass. This account came from conversations Max and I had in April and May, 2023.

Members of multiple tribes and environmentalists staged what they dubbed a "peaceful protest" at Thacker Pass to halt construction of a lithium mine.

Members of multiple tribes and environmentalists staged what they dubbed a "peaceful protest" at Thacker Pass to halt construction of a lithium mine.

News Release Reno-Sparks Indian Colony The Thacker Pass Lithium Mine in northern Nevada is headed back to Federal Court on January 5th as the lawsuits against

The upcoming January 5th hearing in Reno’s Federal Courthouse will be the final oral argument in the ongoing lawsuits against the Thacker Pass mine.

A lithium mine is proposed for an area of desert near the Oregon-Nevada border that includes ancestral lands of several tribes.

A lithium mine is proposed for an area of desert near the Oregon-Nevada border that includes ancestral lands of several tribes.

In 2015, former President Barack Obama said "If we're going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we're going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them." Despite this, Obama's energy policy was called "All of the Above," and

A proposed lithium mine along the Nevada-Oregon border would produce critical materials for electric car batteries along with local jobs, but critics say the damage to the environment, including the ancestral lands of multiple tribes, isn't worth it.

A proposed lithium mine along the Nevada-Oregon border would produce critical materials for electric car batteries along with local jobs, but critics say the damage to the environment, including the ancestral lands of multiple tribes, isn't worth it.