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By DANIEL TROTTA, Reuters Published July 29, 2021 6:41am After spending 22 years and $100 million navigating a thicket of state regulations and environmentalists' challenges, Poseidon Water is down to one major regulatory hurdle - the California Coastal Commission. HUNTINGTON BEACH, California - Environmentalists say desalination decimates ocean life, costs too much money and energy, and soon will be made obsolete by water recycling. But as Western states face an epic drought, regulators appear ready to approve a desalination plant in Huntington Beach, California. After spending 22 year...

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 of how and when to offset that environmental harm remain unresolved in regulators’ ongoing review 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 to the sea’s food web. Questions of how and when to offset that environmental harm remain unresol...