President Joe Biden is encouraging investors to put their money where his mouth is—and where billions of dollars in federal tax credits and grants are going—to spur a renewable energy push that is being mired in intractable quagmires because of a cumbersome regulatory process and his own contradictory policies, according to critics.
Those clashing zephyrs are colliding across Nevada’s ridge-ribbed brine flats and desert valleys, where the nation’s only lithium mine subsists and more than 80 proposed lithium projects remain suspended in years-long permitting purgatories or are limping into long-delayed preliminary development under tentative, conditional approvals.
