Toxic traces of lead mining in Missouri are hard to erase
The EPA has spent $127 million since 2020 on remediating mine waste and removing lead-contaminated soil in southeast Missouri’s Old Lead Belt.
The United States should do more to streamline permitting of new mines for electric vehicle metals and not expect to rely solely on recycling of old batteries for supply, the chief executive of Lithium Americas Corp said on Wednesday.
“You have to actually build out all the infrastructure and get these materials first. We don’t have enough to recycle,” Jon Evans, CEO of the Vancouver-based company which is trying to build a Nevada lithium mine, told the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston.
“I’m an environmentalists at heart, but there are changes that need to be made as you move to” electrification.
(By Ernest Scheyder)
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