Daranda Hinkey, who is from the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe and is a leader of a group known as People of Red Mountain, is rejecting and protesting Biden's lithium mine.
Daranda Hinkey, a Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone tribe member, holds a large hand-painted sign that says "No Lithium No mine" at her home, on April 24, 2023, on the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation, near McDermitt, Nev. The Biden administration says the project will help mitigate climate change by speeding the shift from fossil fuels. But Hinkey and other opponents say it is not worth the costs to the local environment and people.
Just 45 miles from the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation where Daranda Hinkey and her family corral horses and cows, a centerpiece of President Joe Biden’s clean energy plan is taking shape: construction of one of the largest lithium mines in the world.
As heavy trucks dig up the earth in this remote, windswept region of Nevada to extract the silvery-white metal us...
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