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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.

Proposed lithium mine in Nevada would damage ancestral lands for short-term benefits, critics say

Benson’s argument is that “mining critical metals is a necessity for a greener future.” But I would ask: a necessity for whom?

Some Nevada activists fighting a massive lithium mine project are angry over the involvement of an environmental group they say espouses discriminatory views about transgender people.

Some Nevada activists fighting a massive mine project are angry over the involvement of an environmental group they say espouses discriminatory views about

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on the website of the Carbon Tax Center. It is republished here with permission. Though I’ve hiked all over the west, I’ve never been to Nevada’s northwest corner. On the map it’s a broad, empty strip from I-80 to the Oregon line. For hundreds of miles, it is in fact wild country — and far from empty, biologically, ecologically. Falk and Wilbert’s encampment. All Thacker Pass photos are from Protect Thacker Pass, used with permissio...