Lithium Mining: The Hidden Environmental Cost of EVs ...
On the map it's a broad, empty strip from I-80 to the Oregon line. For hundreds of miles, it is in fact wild country — and far from empty, biologically, ecologically. Falk and Wilbert's encampment. ... producing one ton of the stuff for use by society entails strip mining and processing as much as 500 tons of earth. Over a single year ...