1. United States
2. Wash.
3. Letter

The federal government is proposing to allow an Australian company to explore for lithium on the Oregon-Nevada border and it’s giving the public scant time to respond. The government has quickly insisted this will have no environmental impact, but mining lithium uses a lot of water. https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2025/03/feds-look-to-fast-track-lithium-mining-exploration-in-se-oregon.html https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/howardcenter/lithium/stories/lithium-liabilities.html This would cause irrevocable harm to the high desert, farmers, and endangered wildlife preserves as far south as Death Valley. Please do anything you can to stop this recklessness. https://dl-rapidbot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/1/7a51/4c5b/7a514c5b-cf00-4c94-9289-eff5812e6926.php