Social and environmental groups claimed the project could cause water and air problems not disclosed in an environmental ...

Hell’s Kitchen, in the Salton Sea, promises to unearth a motherlode of lithium, a mineral essential to electric car batteries, cellphones and other electronics. While the court decision is ...

Judge says county officials adequately studied water and air quality issues for the Hells Kitchen project near the edge of the Salton Sea.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has committed to a $1.4 billion loan for a project that will use an emerging technology to separate lithium from geothermal brines in California. The agency says ...

Times of San Diego will send you the top local and state news at 8 a.m., 365 days a year. Sign up Rendering of a lihium and power project on the south shore of the Salton Sea. Image courtesy ...

CHRIS BENNER AND MANUEL PASTOR have had front row seats to the changes taking place in the so-called Lithium Valley, the ...

Controlled Thermal Resources aims to build a 7,000-acre lithium and geothermal power campus at the south end of the Salton Sea to meet soaring global clean energy demand. But Imperial County-based ...

would help EnergySource Minerals to build out and launch its ATLiS lithium project, which would extract the metal from geothermal brine from under the Salton Sea. A spokesperson for EnergySource ...

$1.85 billion lithium extraction and geothermal power plant at the dusty edge of the Salton Sea. Gov. Gavin Newsom toured the site in 2023. The Hell's Kitchen 1 plant is the first of as many as ...