Social and environmental groups sued last year saying the $1.8 billion Hell's Kitchen project could cause water and air ...

CHRIS BENNER AND MANUEL PASTOR have had front row seats to the changes taking place in the so-called Lithium Valley, the ...

Lithium has become a crucial commodity in the global transition toward green energy. With most of it mined and refined abroad, companies are racing to tap into a vast reserve buried deep under the ...

Judge says county officials adequately studied water and air quality issues for the Hells Kitchen project near the edge of ...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has committed to a $1.4 billion loan for a project that will use an emerging technology to ...

Researchers at The George Washington University, in collaboration with other institutions, have developed an innovative ...

EL CENTRO, Calif. (CN) — Imperial County’s plans to allow companies to mine lithium from the drying Salton Sea do not violate California’s environmental quality rules despite the concerns of local ...

It would be hard to find two landscapes in the continental United States more different than the flat, arid desert of California’s Imperial Valley and the forested, stream-laced mountains of western ...

A judge declined to order more analysis for the Hell’s Kitchen Lithium and Power project near California’s Salton Sea. A California state court has dismissed environmental groups’ challenge ...

$1.85 billion lithium extraction and geothermal power plant at the dusty edge of the Salton Sea. Gov. Gavin Newsom toured the site in 2023. The Hell's Kitchen 1 plant is the first of as many as ...

Controlled Thermal Resources aims to build a 7,000-acre lithium and geothermal power campus at the south end of the Salton Sea to meet soaring global clean energy demand. But Imperial County-based ...

Commercially processed lithium is a key component of electric vehicles ... Thermal Resources aims to develop along the fast-drying southern edge of the Salton Sea, between Calipatria and Niland.