EditorialEmma McConville, who was laid off from a job as a geologist for Exxon Mobil during the pandemic, prompting her to re-evaluate her career and transition from oil and gas to geothermal energy, on a job site in Winnemucca, Nev. on Feb. 22, 2023. (Emily Najera/The New York Times)
EditorialMembers of the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe protest outside the offices of the federal Bureau of Land Management in Winnemucca, Nev., on March 18, 2021, before beginning a prayer run to Thacker Pass, the site where a new lithium mine would operate. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialWinnemucca town and peak, 334 miles from Sacramentto., Hart, Alfred A. (1816-1908), Central Pacific Railroad Company, Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.).