The country’s only fully operational lithium mine had an air pollution problem, Nevada regulators found. State officials intervened and held a so-called “enforcement conference” on March 25 because ...

Measuring water availability for lithium extraction can still be unpredictable, especially in the high-altitude Lithium Triangle in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. Current models can overestimate how ...

The country’s biggest lithium mine has residents of McDermitt skeptical. The town straddles the Nevada-Oregon border and has a history of pollution.

The county also happens to be sitting on enough lithium to produce nearly 400 million batteries, sufficient to completely revamp the American auto fleet to electric propulsion. Even better, that ...

An Imperial County judge cleared the way for the Hell’s Kitchen project, one of the world’s largest lithium mines, when he recently dismissed a lawsuit filed by civic and environmental groups. Hell’s ...

A new bill to increase regulations on lithium mining in South Dakota failed to make it out of the state House on Thursday. House Bill 1258, proposed by Rep. Nichole Uhre-Balk, D-Rapid City, would have ...

Pollution report: An article in the Aug. 19 California section about a report on pollution in the Coachella and Imperial valleys stated that lithium mining was one of several contributors to fine ...

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