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Poseidon wins key seawater desalination permit Bettina Boxall © (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Poseidon Water plans to build one of the nations largest seawater desalination plants on the grounds of the AES Huntington Beach Power Station. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Poseidon Water won a key approval Thursday in its long quest to build a seawater desalination plant on the Orange County coastline. But the permit from the Santa Ana Regional Quality Control Boa...

Questions linger about environmental impact of Poseidon plant Poseidon Water plans to build a seawater desalination plant on the grounds of the AES Huntington Beach Generating Station, which will close in the next few years. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) April 28, 2021 3 PM PT Print Every year that it converts a bit of the Pacific Ocean into drinking water, the proposed Huntington Beach desalination plant would kill tiny marine life crucial to the sea’s food web. Questions o...

Questions linger about environmental impact of Poseidon plant Bettina Boxall © (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Poseidon Water plans to build a seawater desalination plant on the grounds of the AES Huntington Beach Generating Station, which will close in the next few years. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Every year that it converts a bit of the Pacific Ocean into drinking water, the proposed Huntington Beach desalination plant would kill tiny marine life crucial...

LOS ANGELES — When Gov. Gavin Newsom was photographed dining at an opulent Napa Valley restaurant during a surge in coronavirus cases, many Californians saw it as hypocrisy. For opponents

Print When Gov. Gavin Newsom was photographed dining at an opulent Napa Valley restaurant during a surge in coronavirus cases, many Californians saw it as hypocrisy. For opponents of a planned $1-billion desalination plant along the Orange County coast, however, the optics were menacing. The unmasked Newsom was celebrating the birthday of a lobbyist for Poseidon Water, which is close to obtaining final government approval for one of the country’s biggest seawater desalination plants. Poseid...

Emails reveal that Newsom administration officials and Poseidon Water executives have been heavily involved in a regional water board review of the desalination proposal.