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The final oral arguments scheduled for Thursday represent the culmination of a two-year legal battle.

A high-stakes, yearslong legal battle over a huge lithium mine planned in Nevada resumes Thursday with arguments from lawyers for the mining company, the U.S. agency that approved it and the rancher, tribes and conservationists fighting the project.

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The Biden administration has an ambitious agenda to “go green” but some environmentalists wonder at what cost. The approved federal permitting of mining lithium deposits in Nevada is being challenged in court, even though the U.S. imported 2,600 metric tons last year for electronics and electric vehicles.

The final oral arguments scheduled for Thursday represent the culmination of a two-year legal battle.

Demand for lithium is expected to triple by 2030. Lithium Nevada says its project is the only one on the drawing board that can help meet the demand.

Lithium Americas has awarded the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Management (EPCM) contract for the construction of the Thacker Pass open-pit mining project in Nevada (earlier post) to Bechtel, a firm that has built more than 25,000 projects for industries and governments in 160 countries on all seven continents. Lithium Americas...

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

Take a look back at the changes in Indian Country over 2022.

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.