SILVER PEAK, Nevada - Salty water gurgles quietly through a pipe across a dry lakebed and into a Caribbean-blue pond. It's carrying an element that is crucial to the electric car revolution and, suddenly, one of the world's hottest commodities: lithium. Silver Peak, halfway between Reno and Las Vegas, may not resemble most people's mental
WASHINGTON DC - The U.S. is gingerly considering whether to adopt a digital version of its currency, one better suited for today's increasingly cashless world, ushering in what could be one of the dollar's most fundamental transformations. In that scenario, the U.S. would not only mint the coins and print paper bills but also issue
WASHINGTON DC - Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere that contribute to climate change are the highest ever recorded — and that's going back 800,000 years. Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that the concentration of carbon dioxide, one of the primary greenhouse gases, hit 412.5 parts per million in 2020. That's 2.5 parts
AUSTIN - Lorne Matalon, a journalist reporting for National Public Radio in West Texas, has been awarded the 2016-17 Energy Journalism Fellowship at The University of Texas at Austin. The fellowship, now in its second year, is jointly sponsored by UT Austin’s Energy Institute and the Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Law & Business.
