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Dirty Water and Dead Rice: The Cost of the Clean Energy Transition in Rural Minnesota

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Mining the critical minerals needed for electric vehicle batteries could threaten local water supply and Indigenous culture.

By Karina Atkins

More than 250 years ago, the Ojibwe people, one of the largest Indigenous populations in North America, received a prophecy to migrate westward until they reached the land where food grows on water.