While coming large-scale lithium mines and their future employees will bring revenue and jobs to rural Nevada communities hungry for an economic jolt, they’ll also bring growing pains. Rural counties will be on the hook to come up with the money to fund critical infrastructure and other expenses — but, with proceeds from the mines not reaching the counties until production is underway, those same counties have limited ways to prepare or pay for expenses in advance.

Nevada’s active and aspiring lithium developers are undeterred by the swing in global lithium prices, with the state's only active mine seeking to double its size and its two fully-permitted projects also moving forward.

Investing in outdoor recreation is a model rural Nevada communities are leaning into as a way to attract visitors and build an economic buffer in areas that struggle to generate revenue.

Jason Geddes, one of the longest-serving recent members of the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents and a one-time state assemblyman, died late Tuesday, sources close to Geddes’ family confirmed Wednesday. 

While Lithium Americas claims that lithium is needed to address climate change, its mine will directly contribute thousands of tons of carbon emissions and pollutants per year to the already overburdened atmosphere.

In this week’s Indy Environment, we look at a lawsuit filed by an extraction company against protesters of a Nevada mine, and just how common — or not — that is.

New legal filings challenge permits for the Thacker Pass lithium mine and seek to halt construction, which could begin in the coming days.

This week's Indy Environment looks at an expected announcement from the Biden administration on boost the domestic mineral supply for batteries and electric vehicles.

A company wants to build a mine that could bolster the domestic supply of lithium and help address climate change. But the rural communities that encircle the area have major concerns about the project and are at the center of an energy transition from climate-warming fuels, coal mining and combustible engines to solar energy, lithium mining and electric vehicles.