An Australian mining company’s lithium-boron mine in Nevada passed all environmental hurdles on Thursday, and an environmental group immediately notified the federal government that it plans to sue.

Lithium extraction may be a done deal for the Thacker Pass region of Northern Nevada, but not without persistent controversy among some Native Americans and environmentalists. In a new, 133-page ...

Nevada is home to more than 300,000 abandoned mines — mines that can kill you in an almost unimaginable number of ways. But those mines from Nevada’s olden days are attracting a modern-day ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) claimed Thursday that the US government's decision to permit Lithium Americas to mine at Thacker Pass in Nevada violated Indigenous people's rights by failing to obtain ...

RENO, Nev.— A coalition of environmental and Tribal groups sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management today to challenge its authorization of the Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Mine in Nevada’s Esmeralda ...

Ioneer is the company behind the proposed Rhyolite Ridge lithium mine in western Nevada. The mine will devastate the only population of Tiehm’s buckwheat, a rare wildflower the Center petitioned to ...