A worker walks next to bags of lithium ready for export at the SQM processing plant in Antofagasta, Chile, on April 19.Rodrigo Abd/The Associated Press

Chile’s President Gabriel Boric said on Thursday he would nationalize the country’s lithium industry, the world’s second largest producer of the metal essential in electric vehicle batteries, to boost its economy and protect its environment.…

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