American Lithium Laws: Across Texas, Louisiana and other mineral-rich states, it s unclear who owns the millions of metric tons of lithium locked in salty brines underneath U.S. soils, how the battery metal should be valued by regulators and who ultimately should pay to process it into a form usable by manufacturers.
Companies in the U.S. are ready to begin extracting lithium from beneath the ground, but the jumbled intersection of state and federal law has made the legality of doing so murky.
ExxonMobil Lithium Global Business Manager Patrick Howarth on Thursday detailed some of the oil and gas giant s plans to pump lithium from deep below the ground in south Arkansas and promised to explain the extraction technology the company will use by the end of the year.
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