by Elisabeth Robson | Apr 8, 2021 | Reflection
Photograph of Thacker Pond by Max Wilbert Lithium: Mining Mountains of Water by Rebecca Wildbear Nearly a third of the world lacks safe drinking water, though I have rarely been without. In a red rock canyon in Utah, backpacking on a week-long wilderness training in...
by Elisabeth Robson | Apr 7, 2021 | Press
Photograph of deer at Thacker Pass by Spenser Heaps for Deseret News. See the article for more of Spenser’s terrific photography. A proposed lithium mine in rural northern Nevada has created unlikely alliances as efforts to address climate change clash...
by Elisabeth Robson | Apr 7, 2021 | Press
Photograph: (left to right) Myron Smart, Will Falk, and Ian Bigley By Ian Bigley for Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada In late March of 2021, PLAN staff and supporters visited Thacker Pass where a land occupation protest is ongoing in opposition to a massive...
by Elisabeth Robson | Apr 7, 2021 | Press
Photograph of old-growth sagebrush at Thacker Pass at sunset by Sarah Gar By Sarah Gar | April 6, 2021 A recent Cornell University report links 40% of human deaths today to pollution, so why doesn’t this pandemic dominate the news cycle? Why don’t communities...
by Elisabeth Robson | Mar 7, 2021 | Press
A mining giant wants to extract lithium from the Nevada desert to power electric cars. But a more sustainable future doesn’t come without costs. By Samir Ferdowsi for Vice News, March 5, 2021, 8:59am One of the largest known lithium deposits in the world has sat...
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