Democratic lawmakers on the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources are asking the Department of the Interior’s independent ...

Karen Budd-Falen failed to disclose a water rights deal her family made with the company developing the Thacker Pass project.

Democrats in Congress are demanding that the Trump administration investigate a top official at the Interior Department who is accused of violating ethics standards with a $3.5 million water deal for ...

Alongside other traditional members of the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe and our sister tribes, I have been vocal and active in the fight against the Thacker Pass lithium mine due to the ...

Karen Budd-Falen, a top official at the Department of Interior, has financial ties to the controversial Thacker Pass lithium mine in northern Nevada — a project that the Trump administration worked to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sun sets over a protest camp at the site of a proposed lithium mine at Thacker Pass, Nev., on Thursday, April 1, 2021. | ...

Deep beneath the high desert along the Nevada and Oregon border, the United States is sitting on what researchers describe as ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is moving forward with a deal that would allow the U.S. government to take a small equity stake in a Canadian company that is developing one of the world’s largest ...

The U.S. government is taking a minority stake in Lithium Americas, a company that is developing one of the world’s largest lithium mines in northern Nevada. The Department of Energy will take a 5% ...

Karen Budd-Falen’s family ranching operation agreed to sell water rights to the company developing the controversial Nevada lithium project. Karen Budd-Falen, senior partner at Budd-Falen Law Offices ...