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A push for more electric vehicles is bumping up against a western Arizona tribe’s sacred sites and land.
A mining company is looking to extract lithium on land owned by the Bureau of Land Management, but that land surrounds Hualapai land on three sides.
Lithium is a key component in the batteries that power electric vehicles.
Maya Kapoor is a journalist covering science, climate change and environmental justice in the Western U.S. She has written about this conflict, and The Show spoke with her to learn about the Hualapai’s concerns.
