America’s Largest Lithium Project in Jeopardy After Top Energy Department Official Questions Its Ability To Compete With China

“If this project comes to fruition as it ought to, I think it really does take a big bite at the apple in terms of both reshoring and diversifying resources,” Nick Loris, the executive vice president of policy at the right-leaning energy firm C3 Solutions, said in an interview. “Given the bang for your buck that we could get from the lithium production out of this mine, it is one of the, I think, most critical projects that we have in the United States.”