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What do frontline communities want to know about lithium extraction? Identifying research areas to support environmental justice in Lithium Valley, California

Slattery, M., Kendall, A., Helal, N., Whittaker, M. (2023, May). What do frontline communities want to know about lithium extraction? Identifying research areas to support environmental justice in Lithium Valley, California. Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 99, May 2023, 103043, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103043

What do frontline communities want to know about lithium extraction?

Clean energy technologies provide global benefits through climate mitigation and many local environmental benefits for consumers. However, the supply chains that produce them inevitably impose some environmental burden on the communities where they operate. To align with the principles of environmental justice, the burdens and benefits of clean energy supply chains should be distributed equitably, with decision-making processes that empower local communities to participate.

DOE Announces $140 Million for Research on Chemical and Materials Sciences to Advance Clean Energy Technologies and Low-Carbon Manufacturing

The multidisciplinary MINES program will establish fundamental science for the synthesis of battery materials from natural resources, enabling a new ‘separation-by-synthesis’ paradigm for energy storage manufacturing. We will address outstanding knowledge gaps related to synthesis in multicomponent systems, for which manifold component interactions control driving forces and transformation pathways in complex ways, and governing relationships are impossible to visualize or intuit in their entirety. Our interdisciplinary expertise and existing collaborative partnerships provide a strong basis to achieve progress towards material- and energy efficient low-carbon manufacturing for energy storage.