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Environmental advocates want thorough reviews of Arizona’s big chip plants like TSMC
To claim that these projects will have no significant impact on the environment doesn’t pass the smell test,” said coalition member Lenny Siegel in a statement. “These massive industrial plants will have enormous impacts on water and energy supplies and release hazardous liquids and gases, including the ‘forever chemical’ PFAS, into the workplace and environment," he asserted.
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“These toxic chemicals build up in the environment, so any release should be prevented,” said Lenny Siegel. “Manufacturers introduce new PFAS compounds faster than they can be studied, but as far as we know, all of them are hazardous.”