The Destruction of the Environment Goes On

 

Thank you for supporting Inside Climate News! In the 11/07/2021 edition: Plans To Dig the Biggest Lithium Mine in the US Face Mounting Opposition Plans To Dig the Biggest Lithium Mine in the US Face Mounting Opposition Resistance to Lithium America’s plans to dig an element critical to the energy transition at Nevada's Thacker Pass shows that “clean” energy could face the same challenges as fossil fuels. BY CAYTE BOSLER HUMBOLDT COUNTY, Nevada—Deep below the tangled roots of the old-growth sagebrush of Thacker Pass, in an extinct super-volcano, lies one of the world’s largest deposits of lithium—a key element for the transition to clean energy. But above ground, a cluster of tents has risen in the Northern Nevada desert where, for eight months, environmental and tribal activists are protesting plans to mine it for “green” technologies.