Lithium Rush
The clean-energy transition needs lithium. Getting it out of the ground is reopening some of America’s oldest conflicts over land and power.
The Race for Lithium Is Becoming a Race for Water
In the arid American West, expanded mining intensifies battles in vulnerable communities over one of the region’s scarcest resources.
By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow
The Trump Administration’s Critical Minerals Agenda Comes for America’s ‘Forgotten Wildlife Corridor’
By Wyatt Myskow, Carla Samon Ros, Johanna Hansel
How the Rush to Mine the Metal of the Future Echoes America’s Colonial Past
By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow
What the US Could Learn About Mining on Indigenous Peoples’ Ancestral Lands
By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow