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The council plans to reconvene Monday, April 12 at 6 p.m. to resume consideration of agreement.

Critics push PA to set enforceable drinking water levels to protect public health

“We know that in particular young children are at risk of neurological and behavioral health consequences associated with developing bodies and that is something that lasts forever."

Of the 149 projects granted money from the Growing Greener program, 43 in south central Pennsylvania will get $12 million.

"In January when the shipping season is over, do exactly what you did last winter - physically let out as much water as you can because you don’t know what’s going to happen next spring."

“And the really cool thing is when you fill out a survey on your smartphone, it geolocates you. We’re able to go back to that exact same spot and we’ll do the water quality testing."

“They’re not being transparent enough, they’re not engaging the stakeholders and the shoreline communities and they’re not getting the data they need from the appropriate sources like the shoreline communities."

By lowering the outflows from Lake Ontario, the Board hopes to make navigation in the St. Lawrence River safer and raise the water levels in Lake St. Louis.

In recent years, climate activists and states have used the Clean Water Act to block pipelines and other fossil fuel projects. A new EPA rule makes that harder,

"You get double speak. You get half justifications for things, and we’re not getting action from them. So today, the gloves come off."