A Tiehm's buckwheat plant starts to bud in its native habitat and other mineral rocks on public land in the Silver Peak Range in Esmeralda County, Nevada beside Rhyolite Ridge, the site of a proposed lithium mine, on May 7, 2024. (Credit: ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)
Conservationists and a Native American tribe have filed a lawsuit against the United States government to block a lithium-boron mining company in Nevada.
Both parties cited concern that the company, Ioneer Ltd., will drive the endangered Tiehm's buckwheat to extinction.
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