Lithium in a California lake could help U.S. gain energy autonomy

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5. We're still trying to shut down a big one that is proposed here in Nevada on native land

Not sure if this new extractive technique is what it's cracked up to be, but my life's experience says that most any extractive process is very dirty and very unhealthy.

This from Las Vegas...we have license to complain about mining industry's impact on air and water quality. We have radioactive mountains a mile north of the city's edge, we get mercury in our air from every gold mine in the state and we have a gypsum mine and processing facility in the next valley over.