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Here are some items reported by Heatmap News as the year wraps up:

• Permian Basin methane emissions drop 26% in 2023 as new EPA rules hit.
• Biden approves 11th large-scale offshore wind project near Nantucket; construction to start in 2025.
• A large coal plant in Texas is being converted into a solar and battery power facility, financed by a federal grant.
• A surprising finding about the eco-friendliness of real vs. fake Christmas trees!

In September 2023, scientists found what could be the largest deposit of lithium in an ancient US supervolcano. Now public researchers have uncovered another untapped reservoir. It’s hiding in wastewater from Pennsylvania’s gas fracking industry.

If scientists can extract even a conservative amount of lithium from fracking wastewater in the state, they calculate it could meet more than 30 percent of the current US demand.