A European fund tied to Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures invested $12 million in the I-ROX pulsed-power venture with Robert Friedland’s I-Pulse Inc.
A report by the Environmental Integrity Project and Earthjustice found that 96% of the 265 power plants that are contaminating groundwater in the US are not proposing any treatment plan.
The dispute centers on the federally owned Oak Flat Campground, which some Apache consider home to deities and which sits atop a reserve of more than 40 billion pounds of copper.