GARDNERVILLE, Nev. — A botanist gently strokes the pollen of endangered wildflowers with a paintbrush as she tries to reenact nature inside a small greenhouse in the shadow of the Sierra Nevada. But they’re fiercely fighting the mine because it would dig deeper than the length of a football field near the world’s only known patches of land where endangered …
RENO, Nev. — The Biden administration has taken a significant step in its expedited environmental review of what could become the third lithium mine in the U.S., amid anticipated legal challenges from conservationists over the threat they say it poses to an endangered Nevada wildflower. Officials for the bureau and its parent Interior Department trumpeted the news, saying the progress …