cobalt<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@InsideClimate" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>InsideClimate</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@insideclimate/latest-news-igngpae4z" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>latest-news-InsideClimate</span></a></span> Late Senator John McCain lobbied for the mining. As did former senator Jeff Flake. The consortium of major investors and paid lobbyists is on a scale I’ve never seen before and global backers. They are going to literally blow up those mountains. And use ungodly amounts of water to frack and process. In the desert. In the desert. Did I mention it’s a desert? <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arizona</span></a></p>