Source: GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 8/13/21

[I]n a recent article in the Los Angeles Times and related video, Evan Halper argues that we may be trading one environmental crisis for another: The sprint to supply automakers with heavy-duty lithium batteries is propelled by climate-conscious countries like the United States that aspire to abandon gas-powered cars and SUVs. They are racing to secure the materials needed to go electric, and the Biden administration is under pressure to fast-track mammoth extraction projects that threaten to unleash their own environmental fallout.

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