Lithium could be key to turning Arkansas oil patch into a battery boomtown
America s future will rely on batteries. The crucial chemical in those batteries is plentiful under Arkansas the trick is pumping it out. Author: Rolly Hoyt Updated: 10:23 PM CDT July 13, 2021
EL DORADO, Ark. Oil powered the last century, with some of it pulled from the ground in Arkansas, but in today s cleaner and greener times, batteries are going to power our lives.
There is a global push to find the chemicals that go into those batteries, mainly lithium. The mineral for the most part is mined from distant parts of the world and refined into devices in China.
This week on New Mexico in Focus, Our Land returns to mark the 10-year anniversary of the Las Conchas Fire, which burned 156,000 acres of the Jemez Mountains. Here in New Mexico, wildfire season is getting longer. Wildfires, bigger. And these trends will.
Looking for Affordable Housing? UI Says Look to Homeownership May 24 2021, 12:23PM
A recent policy brief from the Urban Institute (UI)
suggests a
radical but common-sense solution for achieving affordable housing -
homeownership. UI analyst Mike Loftin says there is no shortage of other policy
proposals to address the housing problem - more federal investment in building
public housing, subsidies to builders of affordable apartments, dramatic
increases in rent vouchers - but owning one s own home,
he says, is frequently more affordable than renting. There is a widespread idea
that homeownership is for people who achieve some arbitrary level of financial
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The Homewise nonprofit, led by Mike Loftin, pictured here, will be able to expand its affordable housing programs thanks to a $10 million fund created by Anchorum St. Vincent and Enterprise Bank and Trust. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
Santa Fe officialdom’s pledge to focus on housing issues has become front and center in recent months.
Just last week, the mayor and City Council took a stand against the over-saturation of Santa Fe by vacation rentals, a phenomenon that has reduced the number of homes available to local residents, increased real estate prices and spurred complaints of some downtown neighborhoods about being converted, essentially, into hotel space.