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A California appeals court has intervened in a geothermal and lithium project in Imperial County, ordering an environmental review of the development. The court's decision affects Controlled Thermal Resources' Hell's Kitchen project, which aims to generate geothermal energy while extracting lithium. The project's ability to extract lithium on a large scale has not yet been tested. The court's order for an environmental review suggests that the project's potential environmental impact is a concern, but the specifics of this concern are not explicitly stated in the available information.

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