California voters could toss out billions in public dollars — and one SoCal county’s hopes

 California voters could toss out billions in public dollars — and one SoCal county’s hopes

A statewide ballot measure up for a vote in November could upend the lithium tax as well as dozens more local taxes and fees.

The realization of Lithium Valley would put Imperial County on the map as a leader in green energy production once the companies extracting the highly valuable metal from deep under the Salton Sea ar…