In the Nevada valley that is one of the most significant domestic sources of a key element for the energy transition, one company controls the groundwater needed to mine it, another is fighting for a share of it and others are lining up at the tap.
Over the past few decades, the United States has imported most of its lithium from Chile and Argentina, but there’s one major domestic source of the mineral—Nevada. Clayton Valley, a remote basin in the nation’s driest state, is home to the Silver Peak mine, where lithium is extracted in gridded ponds that turn neon blue as they recover one of Earth’s lightest elements through solar evaporation.
A company has proposed to build a crude oil pipeline crossing the Canadian border near where the long-contested project would have entered the United States.
No project better embodies the nation’s wild swings in climate and energy policy than the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Governments cannot reach their climate goals without rethinking humanity’s relationship to the Earth.
Meeting Climate Targets Requires Humanity to Reorient Its Relationship With Nature, New Study Says
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