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People rarely talk about the quiet on northern Nevada’s Thacker Pass, although besides the rolling, sage-filled hills below the Double H and Montana mountains and the empty, so-blue-it-hurts-a-little sky, the quiet demands your attention. The silence awes Wendelyn Muratore, who lives about 5 miles away from Thacker Pass on an alfalfa farm in Kings River Valley. The land surrounding her home is so quiet that after snow falls she can hear her neighbor’s footsteps crossing his yard a mile a way. “It’s a little tiny place on the map, but it’s beautiful,” Muratore said. “The solitu...

The rise of electric vehicles is disrupting life in a small Western community Sofia Jeremias © Spenser Heaps, Deseret News Martin Muratore surveys one of his alfalfa fields at his farm in Kings River Valley, Nev., on Thursday, April 1, 2021. People rarely talk about the quiet on northern Nevada’s Thacker Pass, although besides the rolling, sage-filled hills below the Double H and Montana mountains and the empty, so-blue-it-hurts-a-little sky, the quiet demands your attention. The silence awes Wendelyn Muratore, who lives about 5 miles away from Thacker Pass on an alfalfa...

comments This post originally appeared on Grist. Grist is a nonprofit news agency working toward a planet that doesn't burn and a future that doesn't suck. Sign up to receive Grist's top stories in your inbox. When Edward Bartell first learned that a lithium mine might be moving into his remote corner of northern Nevada, the longtime cattle rancher wasn't upset. "I was actually kind of excited about it," Bartell said. He knew that lithium is a key metal used in batteries for electric vehicles and the power grid, and he knew the United States is going to need a lot of it to transition off fo...

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The hastily approved project went forward without comment from the Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone Tribe. Image credit: Russel Albert Daniels / High Country News Feb. 18, 2021 From the print edition Editor’s note: In April, the Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone tribal council voted unanimously to withdraw the tribe from its agreement with Lithium Nevada, based on a petition from tribal members. In the Great Basin Desert of northern Nevada and southern Oregon, Thacker pass cuts a wide swath of sagebrush and bunch grasses between narrow ribbons of mountain ranges. Th...