How Oil and Lithium Became Allies in the Critical Minerals War with China

Oil and gas Giants plan to repurpose what is considered waste water to supply the U.S. with lithium, using their decades of oil and gas expertise to break into the battery supply chain.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Chevron Resources Company, a subsidiary of Standard Oil of California explored for uranium in the McDermitt Caldera, a massive volcanic complex along the Nevada-Ore…