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The U.S. Department of Energy announced a conditional loan of $700 million Friday to an Australian mining company to pursue a lithium project still facing environmental hurdles in Nevada as the U.S. seeks domestic supplies for a key component in electric vehicle batteries.
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Biden administration says a U.S. judge exceeded his authority when he gave federal wildlife officials a May 21 deadline to decide…
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists say they have scored a significant victory in their bid to win Endangered Species Act protection for a desert…
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — Few people had ever heard of Tiehm's buckwheat when conservationists filed a petition two years ago to declare the desert wildflower an…
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Locally renowned wildlife biologist Jim Boone disagrees with the theory that thousands of rare Tiehm's buckwheat plants on a site proposed for lithium…
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — Environmentalists are suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to try to force the emergency listing of a rare wildflower as an…
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists have filed a complaint with the Securities Exchange Commission accusing an Australian company of misleading investors…
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You may not have ever heard of the Tiehm’s Buckwheat. It’s a flower that ONLY grows in a small patch of land in central Nevada. And it could be sitting…
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says there's enough scientific evidence that two rare plants in Nevada's desert could go extinct to…
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — A mining company has announced a $168,000 grant to the University of Nevada, Reno to extend a five-year research contract to study a…