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A new documentary exposes Lithium Americas’ push for a massive new mine at Thacker Pass, and the Indigenous resisters fighting to stop them.

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 permission In January, a pair of activists, Will Falk and Max Wilbert, pitched a tent in one of the loveliest...