The state lawmaker all in on lithium
Eduardo Garcia is all in on lithium. As a state lawmaker representing some of California’s poorest and most polluted areas, he’s become a leading advocate for lithium recovery from the Salton Sea, a highly saline inland body of water in his Imperial Valley district. The region is a hotbed for geothermal energy production, and the process of extracting lithium from naturally occurring geothermal brine could be the cleanest method yet of capturing the critical mineral. … The state projects the Salton Sea could hold enough lithium to supply current global demand …