The project in Nevada is key to Biden's clean energy agenda, but the mining plan appears destined for a legal battle with ...

A report by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service dated Sept. 4, 2024, concludes the project will not cause the wildflower’s ...

Tiehm’s buckwheat is a rare Nevada wildflower with delicate cream-colored blossoms that grows on just 10 acres of the boron- and lithium-rich soils of the Silver Peak Range in Esmeralda County, the ...

FILE - Tiehm's buckwheat grows in a greenhouse in Gardnerville, Nevada, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. The endangered desert wildflower stands in the way of a mining company's plans to dig for lithium to ...

The service added the 6-inch-tall (15-centimeter-tall) wildflower with yellow and cream ... Fewer than 30,000 of the plants remain in Nevada at the only place they're known to exist in the world ...

Conservationists and a Native American tribe are suing the U.S. to try to block a Nevada lithium mine they say will drive an endangered desert wildflower to extinction, disrupt groundwater flows ...

(AP) — For the first time under President Joe Biden, a federal permit for a new lithium-boron mine has been approved for a Nevada project ... drive an endangered wildflower to extinction.