For the first time under President Joe Biden, a federal permit for a new lithium mine in the U.S. has been approved.

Conservationists and a Native American advocacy group are suing to block a Nevada lithium mine they say will drive an ...

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

Citing internal Bureau of Land Management emails, the groups say the environmental review process for the mine was on a very ...

RENO, Nev. — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the Tecopa bird’s beak, a rare wildflower found in the desert wetlands of western Nevada and eastern California, may qualify for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nevada Lithium Mine Wins Final Approval Despite Potential Harm to Endangered Wildflower RENO, Nev. (AP) — For the first time under President Joe Biden, a federal permit for a new lithium-boron ...

(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.