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Evidence from glacier ice: Until it was banned, leaded gasoline dominated the anthropogenic lead emissions in South America

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Leaded gasoline was a larger emission source of the toxic heavy metal lead than mining in South America, even though the extraction of metals from the region’s mines historically released huge quantities of lead into the environment, according to a study by researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the University of Bern.

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Opinion: Will Lithium Be Our Next Energy Crisis?

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Globally, 27 percent of all passenger vehicles are forecasted to be EV by 2030. GM projects more than $1 million in EV sales globally by 2025. Countries in the western world are phasing out gasoline-powered cars and rushing to lock down their lithium supplies. domestic supply of lithium. billion in EV production.

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Tesla And Other Tech Giants Scramble For Lithium As Prices Double

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Demand for lithium—the hottest commodity on the planet and the only commodity to show positive price movement in 2015—is poised to continue on its upward trajectory, becoming the world’s new gasoline and earning the moniker of “White Petroleum”. This means that the new market is all about new players.

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