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

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

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory is leading a research project to profile the concentration of lithium in the geothermal field beneath California’s Salton Sea, and to explore the most ...

The region surrounding California’s toxic Salton Sea has enough lithium to make the U.S. self-sufficient in the mineral, which is a key component of rechargeable batteries.

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

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 ...

Simbol Mining is using this process for a new demonstration plant being built on the Salton Sea to produce lithium.

Lithium extraction could have serious implications for the 180,000 people living near the Salton Sea. Additionally, there are concerns about the impact on the region’s water supply, which is ...

$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 ...

A California judge has denied environmentalists' claims that the Hells Kitchen lithium extraction project approved by ... aims to develop along the fast-drying southern edge of the Salton Sea, between ...