Despite years of protests by environmentalists, Serbia’s government is clearing the way for lithium mining in the Jadar region in the west of the country, the Serbian news agency Tanjug reported on Tuesday. One of Europe’s largest reserves of this globally scarce raw material, which is important for the electric car industry, is said to be located near the town of Loznica. With a new decree, Belgrade bowed to a judgement handed down by the Serbian Constitutional Court a few days earlier. According to the court ruling, the cancellation of the regional planning procedure for a lithium mining pro…