All who read the posts here on Agoracom.com's LAC Hub are familiar with the claim from the LAC executives that the proposed battery plant on campus at Thacker Pass will be particularly "Green", especially when compared to Lithium Brine operations.  We don't know the details that are currently being worked out at the LAC Processing Lab in Reno, Nevada but we are told that the Lab is on top of things and continues to work toward the goal of putting the finishing touches on a Green and Efficient processing of the lithium clay that will be mines out at Thacker Pass.   

The article below is about a proposed cometitor's battery plant to be completed in New York State and it highlights their own claim to winning the "Green Weenie" Award for being the Greenest of the Green.  If nothing else, it shows that being "the Greenest of the Green" is going to be seen by lithium mining companies as a terrific marketing tool.  LAC has alredy bought into that type of PR hooplah so we should be aware of what other lithium companies are saying.  The link to the article below has that same Green Hype approach:

“We are an organisation that would like to be known as the greenest battery technology company ever, and we are very close to demonstrating this at a large scale.”

https://thedriven.io/2020/08/24/magnis-hails-green-credentials-of-battery-plant-as-it-pushes-queensland-giga-factory/

What the article fails to mention, unless I just totally missed it, is where the proposed battery factory in New York is getting its lithium from.  Not a small detail in the least!  Seems like something any competent J School grad might give a passing reference to in an article about a "Giga Watt Battery Plant", eh?