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comments This post originally appeared on Grist. Grist is a nonprofit news agency working toward a planet that doesn t burn and a future that doesn t suck. Sign up to receive Grist s top stories in your inbox. When Edward Bartell first learned that a lithium mine might be moving into his remote corner of northern Nevada, the longtime cattle rancher wasn t upset. I was actually kind of excited about it, Bartell said. He knew that lithium is a key metal used in batteries for electric vehicles and the power grid, and he knew the United States is going to need a lot of it to transition off fossil fuels. ....
Nevada rancher sues to block lithium mine near Oregon line By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) A longtime Nevada rancher is suing U.S. regulators over the approval of a lithium mine on federal rangeland he says would violate environmental laws and undermine changes he has made in his own livestock grazing practices to help threatened fish and wildlife. Edward Bartell and Bartell Ranch LLC say the Bureau of Land Management relied “entirely upon flawed and error-laden findings” in environmental assessments prepared by the mine’s own contractor. Bartell maintains the review masks the real effects that he says would lower the groundwater table, harm the federally protected Lahontan cutthroat trout and imperiled greater sage grouse and “transform much of our private lands into barren desert.” ....
Nevada rancher sues to block lithium mine near Oregon line The mine would provide 1,000 jobs during construction and 300 once completed, generating $75 million in state and local tax revenue over a decade. By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. A longtime Nevada rancher is suing U.S. regulators over the approval of a lithium mine on federal rangeland he says would violate environmental laws and undermine changes he has made in his own livestock grazing practices to help threatened fish and wildlife. Edward Bartell and Bartell Ranch LLC say the Bureau of Land Management relied “entirely upon flawed and error-laden findings” in environmental assessments prepared by the mine s own contractor. ....