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Lithium Battery Supply Chains of North America:
An interactive map

This map shows active and planned operations in the North American lithium-ion battery / electric vehicle supply chain. Operations are classified according to supply chain segment, with operations spanning raw materials, manufacturing (electrodes and cells, modules and packs, electric vehicles), end of life recycling and reuse, and other supply chain activities (equipment, service and repair, research and development, modeling and software, distribution). This map also displays key socioeconomic indicators used in the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST), and state-level labor policy indicators and rankings collated and calculated by Oxfam America.

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UCSC Institute for Social Transformation

Rooted in the Social Sciences Division at UC Santa Cruz, the institute supports innovative scholarship that changes the world. The institute is a critical intellectual and social hub, connecting scholars across UC Santa
Cruz and beyond, developing research-based solutions to urgent problems in the world.

Jobs To Move America

Jobs to Move America is a strategic policy center that works to transform public spending and corporate behavior using a comprehensive approach that is rooted in racial and economic justice and community organizing. We seek to advance a fair and prosperous economy with good jobs and healthier communities for all.


USC Equity Research Institute (ERI)

The USC Dornsife Equity Research Institute (ERI) seeks to use data and analysis to contribute to a more powerful, well-resourced, intersectional, and intersectoral movement for equity.

United Auto Workers (UAW)

The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) is one of the largest and most diverse unions in North America, with members in virtually every sector of the economy. UAW-represented workplaces range from multinational corporations, small manufacturers and state and local governments to colleges and universities, hospitals and private non-profit organizations.

Power in the Desert

The Lithium story is not just confined to Imperial Valley. For the last year, book co-authors, Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor, have been collaborating with Argentine filmmaker and documentarian Emiliano Rodriguez Nuesch to create a dialogue between the experience of Lithium Valley in California and the so-called “Lithium Triangle” in Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia. Their conclusion: the future of these regions may be uncertain but the communities there that have too often been left behind and kept behind are linked in their concerns for people and the planet. To get a glimpse of the forthcoming full-length documentary, view the trailer below.