Top Interior Department official has ties to Thacker Pass lithium mine

Top Interior Department official has ties to Thacker Pass lithium mine

Karen Budd-Falen, a top official at the Department of Interior, has financial ties to the controversial Thacker Pass lithium mine in northern Nevada — a project that the Trump administration worked to fast-track during its first term. In recent months, the administration took an equity stake in the mine and the mine’s parent company.  After an unexplained delay, Public Domain and High Country News obtained Budd-Falen’s financial disclosure earli…