24-07-2023 09:34 via hardware.slashdot.org

US Pulls Authorization for Lithium Exploration Project in Southern Nevada, Citing Wildlife

Tuesday North America's largest lithium mining operation cleared its last legal hurdle in federal appeals court, giving a green light to the mining of 6,000 acres in an 18,000-acre project site near Nevada's northern border.
But meanwhile, in Southern Nevada...Federal land managers have formally withdrawn their authorization of a Canadian mining company's lithium exploration project bordering a national wildlife refuge in southern Nevada after conservationists sought a court order to block it.
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