Pennsylvania’s Fracking Wastewater Contains a ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Critical Clean Energy Mineral Lithium

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By By Kiley BenseMay 29, 2024, 5:00 am255 pts
A new study estimated there is enough lithium in the state’s wastewater to meet up to 40 percent of domestic needs. But experts are concerned the discovery will be used to justify more fracking. By Kiley Bense In 2007, a geoscientist at Penn State named Terry Engelder calculated that Pennsylvania could be…

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