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Will California’s Desert Be Transformed Into Lithium Valley?
A swing set stands alone in the Salton Sea. State officials are helping fund experimental projects to extract valuable lithium from the lake’s brine. Photo by Shae Hammond for CalMatters
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California’s desert is littered with remnants of broken dreams hidden ghost towns, abandoned mines and rusty remains of someone’s Big Idea. But nothing looms larger on an abandoned landscape than the Salton Sea, which languishes in an overlooked corner of the state.
The water shimmers and broils in the desert like a rebuke: born of human error, made worse by 100 years of neglect and pollution. California’s largest lake is also one of its worst environmental blights, presenting a problem so inverted
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A swing set stands alone in the Salton Sea. State officials are helping fund experimental projects to extract valuable lithium from the lake s brine. (Photo by Shae Hammond for CalMatters)
California’s desert is littered with remnants of broken dreams hidden ghost towns, abandoned mines and rusty remains of someone’s Big Idea. But nothing looms larger on an abandoned landscape than the Salton Sea, which languishes in an overlooked corner of the state.
The water shimmers and broils in the desert like a rebuke: born of human error, made worse by 100 years of neglect and pollution. California’s largest lake is also one of its worst environmental blights, presenting a problem so inverted that its toxic legacy intensifies as its foul water disappears.
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On December 9, 2020, the California Energy Commission (CEC)
appointed nine members of the new Blue Ribbon Commission on Lithium
Extraction in California (Lithium Valley Commission). The
appointments were made pursuant to Assembly Bill 1657 (Garcia,
Chapter 271, 2020) (AB 1657), which was signed into law by Governor
Newsom on September 29, 2020.
AB 1657 requires the CEC to establish the Lithium Valley
Commission to review, investigate, and analyze issues and potential
incentives regarding lithium extraction and use in California, and
submit a report to the Legislature documenting its findings and
recommendations, on or before October 1, 2022. AB 1657 also