Kate and Aaron are joined by three members of the reporting team behind, Lithium Liabilities, a groundbreaking investigation into how lithium mining could affect the West’s water supply. Emma Peterson, Morgan Casey, and Lauren Mucciolo are part of a large team of editors, photographers, and reporters who worked on the investigation at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism.

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• Feds publish “unprecedented” Bears Ears plan – Land Desk
  
• Lithium Liabilities – Cronkite News
  
• Comment on Bears Ears draft management plan – Bureau of Land Management
  
• Shutting off Arizona’s spigot to Saudi Arabian cows and political bull – Arizona Republic
  

Hosts: Kate Groetzinger & Aaron Weiss 

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