Mine just south of Oregon-Nevada line may boost Joe Biden’s energy plan
Updated Jan 23, 2021;
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CARSON CITY, Nev. One of the keys to President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion clean energy plan could be a mineral that lies in a salt flat above a prehistoric volcano just south of the Oregon-Nevada line.
But the question of how to extract lithium and whether former President Donald Trump’s Department of Interior rushed a mine through the approval process could be an early test for Biden and his nominee for Interior secretary, New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management issued a record of decision on Trump’s final Friday in office for an open-pit lithium mine at Thacker Pass, which is roughly 53 miles north of Winnemucca, Nevada.
On the same day President Joe Biden yanked a key permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, environmental groups continued the fight in Montana federal court, saying the Trump administration conducted inadequate environmental reviews before greenlighting the project.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) The U.S. Bureau of Land Management in the final days of the Trump administration issued a grazing permit to Oregon ranchers whose imprisonment sparked the 2016 armed takeover.