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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 to the sea’s food web. Questions of how and when to offset that environmental harm remain unresol...

Print This is the April 1, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. When the California Public Utilities Commission recommended 17 months ago that a gas-fired power plant on the Redondo Beach waterfront remain open beyond 2020 — over the objections of local officials and clean energy activists — Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves made a commitment to the city’s mayor. “I pledge to you, Mayor Brand, that I will never support a further extension,” she said. Now...