Lithium executives said the ruling gave renewed momentum to the emerging industry, which many hope will bring new jobs to one ...

California regulators, environmentalists, scientists and many of the companies vying for a piece of the Imperial Valley's burgeoning ... National Laboratory to map lithium deposits, and game ...

Imperial County consistently ranks among the most economically distressed places in California. Its Salton Sea, the state's biggest and most toxic lake, is an environmental disaster. And the ...

EL CENTRO, Calif. (CN) — Imperial County’s plans to allow companies to mine lithium from the drying Salton Sea do not violate California’s environmental quality rules despite the concerns of local ...

A California judge has denied environmentalists' claims that the Hells Kitchen lithium extraction project ... residents and environment of the Imperial Valley receive the highest threshold of ...

“The development in Imperial Valley is a gamechanger for not just Southern California but the entire nation in shifting lithium dependence on foreign countries to a domestic supply ...

This week President Trump began a campaign to upend federal spending. Meanwhile a lithium company in Imperial Valley awaits over $1B in federal funds. inewsource investigative reporter Philip ...

“Just saw your map,” the message began ... Beyond Nevada, there are proposed lithium operations in California’s Imperial Valley, South Dakota’s Black Hills, the Great Salt Lake in ...

Image courtesy Controlled Thermal Resources The race to extract lithium in the Imperial Valley got a boost earlier this month, when the Biden administration’s Department of Energy announced it ...

called lithium extraction a “huge opportunity” but wants to ensure that low-income, mostly Latino communities in the Imperial Valley benefit. Comite Civico del Valle Executive Director Luis ...