{"id":193485,"date":"2025-10-01T00:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T00:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/193485\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T00:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T00:19:10","slug":"us-to-take-stake-in-lithium-americas-to-boost-nevada-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/193485\/","title":{"rendered":"US to Take Stake in Lithium Americas to Boost Nevada Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The US government agreed to acquire a stake in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/LAC:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Lithium Americas Corp.<\/a>, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said, giving a boost to the Canadian company as it develops its Thacker Pass lithium project in Nevada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The US will take a 5% stake in the Vancouver-based company, as well as a 5% stake in the company\u2019s mining project of the largest lithium deposit in the US, Wright said in a Bloomberg Television interview on Tuesday, adding the move was necessary to help counter China\u2019s control of the lithium market. The US-listed shares of Lithium Americas jumped as much as 41% in postmarket trading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US government agreed to acquire a stake in Lithium Americas Corp., Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,144,12514,5888,2420,99343,112414,30351,105489,12477,1058,111,74,79979],"class_list":["post-193485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-china","tag-construction","tag-general-motors-co","tag-government","tag-greener-living","tag-hyperdrive","tag-july-sarl-caen","tag-lithium-americas-corp","tag-mp-materials-corp","tag-nevada","tag-politics","tag-technology","tag-wind-turbines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}