Chip Plants' Environmental Impacts

This is a Santa Clara County news story, published by MSN, that relates primarily to Ruben Navarrette news.

Santa Clara County news

For more Santa Clara County news, you can click here:

more Santa Clara County news

Ruben Navarrette news

For more Ruben Navarrette news, you can click here:

more Ruben Navarrette news

environmental science news

For more environmental science news, you can click here:

more environmental science news

MSN news

For more news from MSN, you can click here:

more news from MSN

About the Otherweb

Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best science news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like environmental science news, you might also like this article about

Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition

. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest Public Environmental Oversight news, other environmental laws news, environmental science news, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!

future chip plants

The Hill

•

Science

Opinion: The Biden administration is poisoning its legacy with PFAS

Summary

Nutrition label

79% Informative

Ruben Navarrette : Building Chips in America Act exempts most projects from mandatory environmental reviews.

He says the semiconductor industry has become hooked on PFAS , a class of thousands of highly toxic, persistent compounds commonly known as “forever chemicals” He says Santa Clara County has the highest concentration of federal Superfund sites of any county in the U.S ..

Lenny Siegel is executive director of the Center for Public Environmental Oversight .

Siegel : If the government won’t hold the industry accountable for putting our bodies and futures at risk, then it’s up to the rest of us.

Communities hosting new and future chip plants still have an opportunity to press for protective permits.

VR Score

Informative language

Neutral language

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

Offensive language