Democratic lawmakers on the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources are asking the Department of the Interior’s independent watchdog to investigate whether a ...

Karen Budd-Falen failed to disclose a water rights deal her family made with the company developing the Thacker Pass project.

House Democrats are escalating a clash between climate ambition and ethics, zeroing in on a senior Trump Interior official whose family quietly profited from a water deal tied to one of the country’s ...

Alongside other traditional members of the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe and our sister tribes, I have been vocal and active in the fight against the Thacker Pass lithium mine due to the ...

The U.S. government is taking a minority stake in Lithium Americas, a company that is developing one of the world’s largest lithium mines in northern Nevada. The Department of Energy will take a 5% ...

Mining lithium in the West has been a terrible business recently. From a peak of about $80 a kilo in late 2022, the price of ...

But another promising mining sector is at the crossroads of this town’s storied history: lithium. The Thacker Pass lithium mine — the environmental review of which was fast-tracked and approved in the ...

The U.S. government is taking a minority stake in Lithium Americas, a company that is developing one of the world’s largest lithium mines in northern Nevada. The Department of Energy will take a 5% ...