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 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 ...

Potential risks posed by dust from the massive Greenbushes lithium operation are ‘high’, but the State Government’s regulator ...

Large-scale lithium mining may impact scarce and precious water resources and balance in Argentina’s arid ecosystems, says Clemente Flores, president of the El Angosto Indigenous community. Flores ...

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 ...

Many climate experts see its deserts as a place to build the green-energy future. For two local activists, the price is too great. Patrick Donnelly and Naomi Fraga in a salt flat on the edge of Ash ...

“Corkran’s systematic evaluations revealed two new processes,” says Boutt, professor of Earth, geographic, and climate sciences at UMass Amherst and the paper’s senior author. AMHERST, Mass. — One of ...

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 ...

This recycling facility will make EVs even more eco-friendly. Formosa Smart Energy Tech's (FSET) new recycling facility in Taiwan will help properly recycle retired EV batteries. Recycling batteries ...

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 ...

Historically, lithium has been produced using two approaches: hard rock mining of spodumene deposits, as seen at the ...

A massive lithium discovery beneath California's Salton Sea has set off a high-stakes push for what some have implied could be America's best shot at lithium self-sufficiency. The U.S. Department of ...