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The Llipi pilot plant in Uyuni, south from La Paz, on August 17, 2015 (Getty/Aizar Raldes)

The social cost of lithium in Chile

Tushar Khurana - Grist
Water levels are at a historic low at Lake Powell on April 5, 2022 in Page, Arizona. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

The water brokers

Jake Bittle - Grist
An indigenous leader from Brazil takes part in a protest outside REPSOL Headquarters on December 08, 2019 in Madrid, Spain. Indigenous leaders and activists are protesting in Madrid against oil contamination and the fossil fuel industry in Brazil because of the damage it provokes to the poorest communities, sea life, food supplies and the climate. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

Activists faced a deadly year in 2022

Lyric Aquino - Grist
Oak Flats in Superior, Arizona. (Andrew Lichtenstein/ Corbis via Getty Images)

Indigenous place of worship threatened

Lyric Aquino - Grist
(Getty/acilo)

Clean energy projects for coal towns

Katie Myers - Grist
Using a hydraulic hammer, miners mine roof slate in an underground pit (Thomas Frey/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Gov push to find green energy minerals

Maddie Stone - Grist
A cemetery stands in stark contrast to the chemical plants that surround it October 15, 2013. 'Cancer Alley' is one of the most polluted areas of the United States and lies along the once pristine Mississippi River that stretches some 80 miles from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, where a dense concentration of oil refineries, petrochemical plants, and other chemical industries reside alongside suburban homes. (Giles Clarke/Getty Images)

Justice Dept. sues Louisiana polluters

Lylla Younes - Grist
Thacker Pass (U.S. Bureau of Land Management)

Lithium mine controversy in Nevada

Gabriela Aoun Angueira - Grist
A view of high voltage transmission towers on February 21, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Millions of Texans lost their power when winter storm Uri hit the state and knocked out coal, natural gas and nuclear plants that were unprepared for the freezing temperatures brought on by the storm. Wind turbines that provide an estimated 24 percent of energy to the state became inoperable when they froze. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Mainstreaming "electrify everything"

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
Dakota Access Pipeline (Getty Images)

Pipeline company paid off police

Alleen Brown, John McCracken - Grist
Oil refinery, owned by Exxon Mobil (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Big Oil backs out of climate promises

Kate Yoder - Grist
(Getty/agnormark)

Can Congress fix an 1872 mining law?

Blanca Begert - Grist
U.S. Supreme Court Building (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Kate Yoder - Grist
Pumpjack at oil industry against cloudy sky during sunset in North Dakota, USA (Getty Images)

Burning gas in oil fields a money pit

Maria Parazo Rose - Grist
Working oil pumps against a sunset sky (Getty Images/imaginima)

African nations tap into oil wealth

Lylla Younes - Grist
Electric vehicles are displayed before a news conference with White House Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about the American Jobs Plan and to highlight electric vehicles at Union Station near Capitol Hill on April 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

EV boom could bring lithium mines to NC

Blanca Begert - Grist
The Liberian-registered oil tanker Goldway berths at Hound Point Oil Terminal on the Forth Estuary, as uncertainty continues in the global oil market as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis (Ken Jack/Getty Images)

Oil exploration threatens marine life

P.K. Read - Undark
1993 California Gold Rush. Ralph Shock holds a nine ounce nugget found in the North fork of Tuolumne River outside Jamestown in mid May. Ralph says the nugget is worth between US $5,800 and $8,500. Nuggets that can be used for jewelry are prized and valued beyond their weight. (Steve Starr/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

The Gold Rush returns to California

Becki Robins - Undark
Ilulissat, Greenland (Getty/Sean Gallup)

Why Trump is obsessed with Greenland

Nicole Karlis
(AP/Seth Perlman)

Coke's anti-American scheme

Lindsay Abrams
(AP/Corey Accardo)

Lindsay Abrams
(Anton Balazh/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
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