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At LI, Eco-Activist Bureaucrats and Fear-Mongering Media’s Newest Terror: PFAS Chemicals

What appears to be happening is that “environmental scientists” are exposing animals to high levels of these compounds in their experiments, then projecting those findings to trace levels in the environment to which humans can be exposed.

Human health effects from exposure to low environmental levels of PFAS are uncertain.

Studies of laboratory animals given large amounts of PFAS indicate that some PFAS may affect growth and development. In addition, these animal studies indicate PFAS may affect reproduction, thyroid function, the immune system, and injure the liver.

With all of this in mind, it is not surprising that Biden’s EPA is now hitting up the nation’s water supply with new rules related to PFAS chemicals. Eco-activists aim to entirely eliminate theses substances from use.

Environmentalist are a bit like sharks are reputed to be, unable to stop swimming forward because they need to move forward into new water to stay alive. There is a constant need for more issues, chemicals to regulate for more costs, and less gain to the public.

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York Dispatch, Proposed $2.3 hydroelectric dam project clears regulatory hurdle on its way to impact studies

The $2.3 billion hydroelectric dam proposal along the Susquehanna River south of Wrightsville has new life thanks to preliminary approval from the U.S. Federal Regulatory Energy Commission.

FERC's preliminary approval, which came Thursday, does not mean construction will be coming anytime soon on the 1,000-acre project in Chanceford Township. The next step would be a potentially four-year-long process of reviewing any impacts the project could have on the area.

Dam developer William McMahon, of York Energy Storage, said the approval is an important step in developing the project.

"It's proven technology," he told The York Dispatch on Monday. "There's not a lot of innovation here. It's been done."

This is a dam for pump/storage production of electricity, one way to "store" energy from renewables like wind and solar. Using "excess" renewable energy, water is pumped up hill to a reservoir, where gravity can be used to run it through turbines to make electricity when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine. So of course environmentalists are opposed:

"We have concerns over, obviously, water quality, water usage, impacts to aquatic life, impacts to the groundwater, you know, and obviously impacts to the landscape. It would flood," Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Ted Evgeniadis said, at the time.

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