The move comes less than two weeks after a judge rebuked an effort by data center developer Northpoint to appeal the Township’s denial last fall of Project Hazelnut. If approved, the massive Amazon Web Services campus with fifteen hyperscale data centers covering 1,300 acres would be one of the largest in Pennsylvania. Project Hazelnut, a flagship in Governor Shapiro’s Fast-Track permitting program, was granted state permits to clear forests and begin construction activities, despite lacking local approvals.

In response, Food & Water Watch Eastern Pennsylvania Senior Organizer Ginny Marcille-Kerslake issued the following statement:

“Hazle Township has done what Governor Shapiro will not: stand up to Big Tech’s data centers. In the courts and at public meetings, Hazle Township supervisors have sided with their constituents over the destruction these unwanted data centers would bring.

“Across Pennsylvania, municipalities like Hazle Township are filling a void of leadership in Harrisburg. Pennsylvania needs to press pause on data centers — everywhere. Senator Muth’s data center moratorium, SB1359, is the bill to get us there.”

With today’s vote, Hazle Township joins a growing list of Pennsylvania municipalities to pause data center development with a municipal curative amendment. The move comes just over a week after Pennsylvania Senator Katie Muth filed a comprehensive bipartisan data center moratorium bill to pause industry development statewide for three years.

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Nationwide, PFAS are in the drinking water of 176 million people — more than half of the country. Corporations have been able to produce these forever chemicals and pollute our water since the 1940s, and communities most inundated with PFAS have suffered from a variety of often-deadly illnesses, including cancer. 

Biden-era regulations promised essential first steps toward protecting our drinking water from these dangerous contaminants. In rolling them back, the Trump administration has sent a message loud and clear: Let them drink poison. 

Trump Takes Aim at Common-Sense Protections Against PFAS

PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are a class of thousands of lab-made chemicals that leach from common everyday products, from fabrics to cooking pans, into our food, water, ecosystems, and bodies. They’re linked to numerous health issues, including Type 2 diabetes, lower bone density, and lower birth weights. Some PFAS are likely or known to cause certain cancers. 

Given the scale of this health crisis, it’s clear we need bold action now to ensure everyone has clean water safe from PFAS. In 2024, Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took an important step toward that goal. It issued regulations to limit six common types of PFAS in our drinking water (PFHxS, PFNA, HFPO-DA — also known as Gen X — PFBS, PFOA, and PFOS), giving water utilities five years to comply. 

But now, this May, Trump’s EPA proposed two new rules to weaken these protections. One proposal would eliminate limits on four PFAS in drinking water; the other would allow water systems to delay their deadline for complying with limits on the remaining two, PFOA and PFOS, to 2031. 

With its deregulatory actions, Trump is condemning millions of us to drink poison. 

Trump Puts Chemical Industry Profits Over People

Helming the EPA and its PFAS rollback efforts is Administrator Lee Zeldin, once a supporter of PFAS protections. He even voted for the PFAS Action Act of 2021 to address PFAS contamination during his time in Congress. 

So why is he opening the gates for more pollution?

One factor that could be at play is the daunting amount of industry influence and lobbying. Water utility and industrial groups, including the chemical industry, have challenged the Biden-era regulations in court. In the EPA’s attempt to justify rolling back PFAS regulations, it references an argument that these groups made in their case. 

In addition, Food & Water Watch found that in the first half of 2025 alone, the PFAS industry has spent up to $60 million lobbying the EPA and $12 million lobbying the Trump administration in the first half of 2025, and rollbacks were first announced last May.

At the same time, the Trump administration has stacked the EPA with former executives and staff from the American Chemistry Council, as well as lawyers like David Fotouhi who have defended companies from PFAS pollution claims.  

This is part of a long history of the industry’s influence on the public and our politics. For decades, PFAS makers hid what they knew about their products’ potential dangers. 

In recent years, as the public has learned more about these dangers, the chemical industry has poured millions of dollars into influencing federal lawmakers. The industry spent more than $110 million from 2019 to 2022 alone lobbying Congress, including on many bills that would have addressed the PFAS crisis. 

Trump and his cronies, including Administrator Zeldin, are allying with rich executives and polluting corporations over clean water and public health. We can’t let this stand.

Take Action! Tell the EPA to Protect Us from Poison PFAS

The EPA must not delay or roll back these hard-won limits on toxic PFAS contamination in our drinking water. That’s why we’re calling on the agency to stop its deregulatory actions, immediately withdraw its two new proposed rules to gut and delay PFAS drinking water limits, and maintain and defend existing protections from toxic PFAS in our drinking water.

At the same time, we know we need even stronger protections to stem the tide of toxic PFAS. Limits on six PFAS in our drinking water are an essential but insufficient step in protecting our water and our health — especially considering the many thousands of types of PFAS out there and how the EPA is greenlighting new ones every month.

The EPA must also ban all non-essential uses of PFAS and stop approving the manufacture of new PFAS chemicals. It must hold polluters accountable for PFAS cleanup and expand protections to regulate all the thousands of PFAS as a class. 

The EPA is taking public comments on its proposals to roll back PFAS protections until July 20, 2026. Take action now to tell the EPA to protect our health and environment. It can’t shirk that duty to enable more corporate profits. 

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These tax abatements are based on the false assumption that data centers must be lured into a community to bring jobs and economic development. But nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, many of these towns have what data centers desperately need — energy, water, and infrastructure. 

Meanwhile, across the country, we’re seeing data centers raise electricity bills, threaten clean water supplies, bring few jobs, and gobble up land and resources. Tax abatements are just another way for data centers to leech off our communities. 

One such community is in Adams County, OH, where Amazon is currently planning its Project Galaxy data center. Project Galaxy may become one of the biggest data centers in the state and is slated to consume 31 times more power than the rest of Adams County. 

Food & Water Watch dug into communications between Amazon, County officials, and a hired law firm to discover what lucrative deals Adams County may offer to one of the richest corporations on the planet — and how people will pay the price. 

Adams County, OH: A Case Study in Data Center Tax Breaks

What do these tax breaks actually involve? In the case of Project Galaxy, Adams County is considering several options. 

One is a Community Reinvestment Area (CRA) agreement, which would reduce the amount of property taxes paid in a specific zone. One proposal would create a 30-year agreement in which Project Jupiter and other development in the CRA would pay zero property taxes to the County. 

Another CRA would set up a 15-year, 50% tax break deal, and be combined with a Tax Increment Financing (TIF) plan. This would create a “TIF district” and separate the property taxes paid on that land into two streams: one for “unimproved” land that goes straight to the County, and a second for “property improvements,” including the data center buildings and their hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of “land improvement.” 

This second, much larger stream would not fund public services, but instead would be used only for the benefit of development within the TIF district. 

Project Galaxy may also rely on payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) programs. This replaces property taxes with an annual lump sum paid by Project Galaxy to the County. But this could be much lower than the actual property taxes Project Galaxy would have paid.

For example, in neighboring Scioto County, OH, a data center got a 15-year, 75% property tax abatement and a PILOT of only $500,000 — much less than the taxes it would normally owe without this deal.

Huge Tax Breaks for Nothing in Return

One of the biggest talking points for data center developers is that these facilities will “bring jobs.” But these data center jobs are far fewer than developers let on, while tax breaks can divert millions of dollars from local coffers. 

Meanwhile, data centers demand large amounts of land, water, electricity infrastructure, roads, and even fire and emergency medical services, as Adams County would have to provide if Project Galaxy goes through. 

In nearby Jerome Township, OH — home to multiple Amazon data centers — the Township had to collect additional fees for the fire department because data centers needed inspections so often. If not negotiated with data centers beforehand, residents may bear the costs instead. 

At the same time, data centers are raising power bills and water bills across the country. They’re driving fossil fuel expansion, meaning dirtier air and worsening climate chaos. They’re worsening their neighbors’ quality of life with noise pollution and ruined landscapes. 

By enticing data centers with tax breaks, state and local officials are merely bringing expensive nuisances into our backyards, and they’re draining public funds to do it.

Data Centers and Tax Deals Are Shrouded in Secrecy

In the case of Adams County and so many other towns, these data center deals are happening under a veil of secrecy. Much of the information about the proposed Project Galaxy tax breaks is not publicly available and was only accessible with a formal records request under the Freedom of Information Act. 

Adding insult to injury, Amazon developers and Adams County officials have explicitly stated that they are “working behind the scenes” to “get ahead” of any public pushback to the project.¹Email exchanges between Adams County Economic Development Officer and representatives from Amazon. Obtained through FOIA request and on file with FWW.

Meanwhile, in neighboring Scioto County, County Commissioners approved tax breaks for Tilted Gate LLC, a real estate developer working on a Google data center, while under non-disclosure agreements. Commissioners signed abatement agreements without including economic impact assessments or cost-benefit analyses. 

People have a right to know about development that directly impacts them. But data center developers know that if this information were to become widespread, the pushback would grow even stronger. 

Local Officials Must Put People Over Profits and Pause Data Centers

The issue of tax breaks begs the question — why are local officials sacrificing millions in tax revenue that could benefit our schools, our water infrastructure, our roads, our firefighters, and our healthcare workers, to boost corporate profits?

Amazon, for instance, makes billions of dollars every year on artificial intelligence services provided from data centers like Project Galaxy. It’s becoming one of the largest companies in the world, and its founder and largest shareholder, Jeff Bezos, is one of the richest men on the planet. 

The fact of the matter is, data centers offer few positives and lots of negatives to local communities, while enriching Big Tech corporations and their ultrawealthy leaders. It’s absurd to offer these facilities lucrative tax abatements to come set up shop.

Ultimately, we need data center moratoriums. These pauses allow time for local officials to assess the impacts of data centers and ensure any development happens with the well-being of constituents, not corporations, top of mind. 

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EPA recently announced that it will be including microplastics on the CCL 6, a list of unregulated contaminants that are known or likely to occur in public water systems that the agency may regulate in the future. However, as EPA itself acknowledges, CCL 6 “will not impose any requirements on regulated entities” – meaning that while EPA might conduct additional research on microplastics, listing on the CCL does not require gathering information about what is actually in our drinking water. The UCMR – issued only every five years – is the vehicle for drinking water monitoring.

“What we really need is a comprehensive, transparent monitoring program to determine the full scale of the microplastics contamination crisis and lay the foundation for drinking water regulations – and including microplastics on UCMR 6 is how we begin to do that,” said Food & Water Watch Senior Staff Attorney Erin Doran. “While the commenters represented in this letter support listing microplastics on the final CCL, EPA must not stop there. The threats of microplastics to human health warrant drinking water monitoring now, even while further research into microplastics continues.”

Groups called on EPA to monitor for microplastics in drinking water under the UCMR 6 because: 

1. Microplastics pose unacceptable risks to human health that underscore the need for drinking water monitoring now.
2. EPA should begin drinking water monitoring while research into microplastics continues.

As the comment concludes, “The health risks posed by microplastics are alarming—seemingly more so every day—and require urgent action from EPA. Instead of using data gaps as an excuse to sit on its hands for another five years or more, the agency should use the best information currently available to begin monitoring for these emerging contaminants in drinking water and adapt its approach as indicated based on further research and technological advancements.”

The comment, led by Food & Water Watch, was joined by dozens of environmental and public health organizations, including 5 Gyres Institute, Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Environmental Health, Clean Water Action, Plastic Pollution Coalition, The Last Plastic Straw, Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community, and many others.

Along with the comment submitted by environmental groups, 4,266 Food & Water Watch members and supporters submitted individual comments to EPA similarly encouraging the agency to take more meaningful action by including microplastics in the UCMR 6. 

Background: 

In Nov. 2024, Food & Water Watch submitted a petition to the EPA advocating for microplastics monitoring under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). The monitoring occurs under the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR), which EPA is required to issue every five years for up to 30 unregulated contaminants. 

Additionally, the SDWA requires the EPA to include a contaminant in the UCMR if seven governors petition for its inclusion and it would not prevent the monitoring of a contaminant of more pressing public health concern. Food & Water Watch led a successful campaign to compel seven state governors to collectively petition EPA for microplastics monitoring. In late 2025, these seven governors submitted their petition to the EPA. 

Every day, people across the United States and the world are ingesting microplastics in drinking water. 

• It’s estimated that each year the average person consumes 4,000 or more microplastic particles from drinking water. 
• Microplastics are linked to health harms including cancer, and have been proven to have an adverse effect on the immune system. 

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In response, Food & Water Watch’s New York State Director Laura Shindell issued the following statement:

“New Yorkers have jumped into action to fight data centers in their communities. It’s clear that wherever these hyperscale data centers are built, electricity rates skyrocket for families and small businesses, water stability is threatened, and communities are turned upside down. 

“Credit to the state legislature for listening to the cries of their concerned constituents and taking the only responsible path when it comes to out-of-control data center development: a complete pause on new construction, so local and state leaders can take the time needed to properly assess the many inherent harms and hazards this industry brings.

“Governor Hochul must sign this hyperscale data center moratorium immediately. Every day counts, as dozens of giant projects seek to fast-track construction. Governor Hochul has an opportunity to demonstrate concern for affordability and listen to public opinion rather than corporate lobbyists. But every day she waits will further endanger our communities. The governor can be a leader on a popular, bipartisan issue, and protect New York communities that aren’t yet prepared to deal with this runaway industry attack.”

Recently more than 150 community, consumer, environmental and faith organizations from throughout New York called for quick passage of a data center moratorium. Additionally, in a letter sent to Governor Hochul and the legislature late last month, nearly 500 small business owners from across the state endorsed the effort. 

Last October, Food & Water Watch became the first national organization in the country to call for a full nationwide moratorium on the approval and construction of new data centers. Since then nearly 500 national, state and local organizations from across the country have echoed this call. Meanwhile, Food & Water Watch has been active in fighting numerous proposals in many states, including California, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

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In response, Food & Water Watch’s managing director of organizing, Emily Wurth, issued the following statement:

“The more Americans learn about AI data centers, the more they are opposed to these monstrous, energy-intensive, water-sucking facilities. We’ve seen enough to know that the unfettered expansion of this aggressive, profit-hungry industry is one of the biggest economic, environmental and social threats of our time. Wherever these hyperscale data centers are built, electricity rates skyrocket for families and small businesses, water stability is threatened, and communities are turned upside down. 

“Credit to the New York state legislature for taking the only responsible path when it comes to out-of-control data center development: a complete pause on new construction, so local and state leaders can take the time needed to properly assess the many inherent harms and hazards this industry brings. 

“Governor Hochul must sign this hyperscale data center moratorium immediately. In so doing, she would demonstrate New York’s leadership on this critical issue rapidly consuming the country.

“Across the nation, a broad and widening movement is taking hold to stop the incessant encroachment of the data center industry in its tracks. Poll after poll shows that a strong majority of Americans do not want this Big Tech attack in their communities. And on almost a daily basis, new towns and cities are enacting their own moratoriums and other measures to protect themselves sooner rather than later.

“State and federal leaders should take the cue from these countless communities already rising up against data centers and get behind legislation in Congress and in statehouses that will meet the moment by putting a pause on this aggressive industry now.”

Last October, Food & Water Watch became the first national organization in the country to call for a full nationwide moratorium on the approval and construction of new data centers. Since then nearly 500 national, state and local organizations from across the country have echoed this call. Meanwhile, Food & Water Watch has been active in fighting numerous proposals in many states, including California, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

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The proposed biogas project would allow Bar 20 dairy, one of the San Joaquin Valley’s largest mega-dairies, to gain unprecedented incentives under California’s LCFS by selling factory farm biogas to a nearby facility that will burn that biogas to produce hydrogen. Factory farm biogas is a noxious mixture of climate intensive methane gas and other air pollutants that large factory farms generate when they irresponsibly manage their waste. 

While certainly not the first factory farm to be granted lucrative incentives from their pollution under the LCFS, this instance is particularly alarming because the hydrogen produced is poised to be assigned an unheard of carbon intensity (CI) value of -1887.35 CI (for comparison, most biogas falls around -250 CI while solar panels and wind energy are typically limited to a CI of zero or higher). A lower CI means more money from credit trading. This is the lowest CI in the history of the LCFS. 

In other words, no matter how much pollution they spew into nearby communities, these facilities will be set to gain unprecedented amounts of money from that pollution. 

“The application from Bar 20 takes the LCFS’s “pay to pollute” model to a higher level than we ever thought possible,” said Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability Co-Executive Director Phoebe Seaton. “And, once again, it’s California consumers who are paying with their hard-earned dollars and San Joaquin Valley residents who are paying with their health.”

“The California Air Resources Board has an obligation to regulate the factory farming industry’s climate pollution—not encourage it with massive subsidies,” said Animal Legal Defense Fund Senior Staff Attorney Christine Ball-Blakely. “Bar 20 is a mega dairy factory farm choosing to use a liquid manure management system that creates large quantities of methane, which is a potent climate pollutant. Such intentionally created methane can never become renewable fuel. Paying factory farms like Bar 20 to create as much methane as possible is not just bad math—it’s perverse policy.”

“What we’re seeing here is the expected result of what the LCFS has become after it was amended to double down on factory farm biogas production at the largest and most polluting dairies,” said Food & Water Watch Staff Attorney Tyler Lobdell. “Despite the warnings of environmental advocates and community members, CARB has allowed this program to morph into an increasingly perverse giveaway to factory farms that undermines real climate progress. This project shows that in real time as one of the state’s largest dairies is poised to greenwash dirty hydrogen production so that it appears better than zero-emission hydrogen production, on paper. Unfortunately, it’s Californians that will pay for this foolishness at the pump and in their healthcare costs.”

The comment was submitted by Defensores del Valle Central para el Aire y Agua Límpio (“Defensores”), Animal Legal Defense Fund, Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability, and Food & Water Watch. 

This comment was also submitted days after another cohort of groups provided CARB with a robust list of suggestions on how to regulate California’s dairy industry to center the concerns of community members and prioritize actual reducing methane emissions over programs like the LCFS that pay polluters to keep polluting. Defensores del Valle Central para el Aire y Agua Límpio (“Defensores”), Animal Legal Defense Fund, Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability, and Food & Water Watch also submitted a comment. 

About the Animal Legal Defense Fund 

The Animal Legal Defense Fund was founded in 1979 to protect the lives and advance the interests of animals through the legal system. To accomplish this mission, the Animal Legal Defense Fund files high-impact lawsuits to protect animals from harm; provides free legal assistance and training to prosecutors to assure that animal abusers are held accountable for their crimes; supports tough animal protection legislation and fights harmful legislation; and provides resources and opportunities to law students and professionals to advance the emerging field of animal law. For more information, please visit aldf.org.

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Food & Water Watch brings together more than 2 million people nationwide to fight for safe food, clean water, and a livable climate. For over 20 years, we’ve partnered with communities to take on polluting industries and win real, meaningful protections for people and the environment.

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Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability works alongside the most impacted communities in the San Joaquin Valley and Eastern Coachella Valley to advocate for sound policy and eradicate injustice to secure equal access to opportunity regardless of wealth, race, income, and place. Leadership Counsel focuses on issues like housing, land use, transportation, safe and affordable drinking water and climate change impacts on communities.

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Meat and poultry processing is already extremely dangerous work and — contrary to the USDA’s claims — these rules would further threaten worker safety in slaughterhouses. In fact, the study USDA erroneously cites as support for increasing line speeds found that 81% of poultry workers are at increased risk of musculoskeletal disorders, and workers who handled more chickens per minute are at higher risk compared to those who handle fewer. Despite these findings, USDA’s proposed rules would not only increase line speeds, but also weaken oversight of working conditions. When the first Trump Administration attempted to enact the same line speed changes in 2019, the United Food & Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), which represents hundreds of thousands of meatpacking and processing workers, won a lawsuit on the grounds that USDA failed to consider the rules’ worker safety impacts. UFCW opposes the proposed rules this time as well.

Higher limits, or no limits at all, also mean more animals slaughtered, plain and simple. Increased meat production will create more water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, not only from the slaughterhouses, but also from the factory farms that supply slaughterhouses with animals. As livestock rearing has transitioned from diversely held small and medium farms to industrial scale factory farms, pollution has become increasingly concentrated, overwhelming local ecosystems and creating environmental health hazards that threaten public health. As more animals are forced through slaughterhouses, the concentration of pollution into nearby waterways (think blood, fat, urine, feces, and algae-causing nutrients) will also grow. Wastewater treatment plants are already struggling to keep pace with slaughterhouse wastewater, and further increasing and concentrating pollution loads puts swimming, fishing, and boating safely at risk. Increased pollution could also make complying with water quality standards even more difficult, requiring investment in expensive treatment systems — and ratepayers will foot the bill.

USDA’s line speed rules will also hurt Americans by undermining food safety. With chickens and pigs flying down the line at breakneck speeds, inspectors do not have enough time to identify fecal contamination and other signs of adulteration that increase the risk of foodborne illnesses like Salmonella and Campylobacter. The Centers for Disease Control has reported that over 1 million people get sick each year in the U.S. from contaminated poultry; this deregulation will increase the likelihood of sickness with more uninspected meat products being packaged and sent out to consumers. Worse yet, increasing line speeds will reduce the time that slaughterhouse employees have to identify signs of zoonotic diseases like bird and swine flu. In the wake of COVID-19, we should be reducing pandemic risks — not increasing them.

We oppose these rules because in addition to being a worker safety issue, rolling back line speed limits harms the environment and public health. The Trump administration’s reckless rules sacrifice public safety to line the pockets of meatpacking executives. Food & Water Watch will use all the legal tools we have to stop USDA from moving forward with these rules.

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The research, based on a review of documents related to Project Galaxy, a proposed Amazon-owned data center in Adams County, breaks down what certain tax incentive proposals for Project Galaxy could mean for local taxpayers, including: 

• Community Reinvestment Area (CRA) agreements, which provides property tax abatements (reductions) in specific zones designated to incentivize private investment and property improvements; 
• Tax Increment Financing (TIF), which would create a “TIF district,” that would use the country’s tax revenue to fund private infrastructure for Project Galaxy;  
• Payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) program, which can be constructed to cover the lack of taxes, with payments collected annually as a lump sum. 

States across the country have walked back or have floated proposals to end tax incentives meant to lure data center developers, including hot beds for the development like Virginia. Just last week, Ohio enacted a pause on state tax incentives following a report that the state lost out on over $555 million in revenue for 2024, and $1.6 billion in 2025 — 11 times more than originally projected. 

“Billion dollar tech companies are preying on rural communities to fund data center projects which provide little to no tangible benefits for nearby residents. They create little jobs and are drains on local resources. Ending tax incentives at the local and state levels are central to putting people over profits,” said Ben Murray, Senior Researcher for Food & Water Watch and author of the report. “The next step must be a data center moratorium at the local and state level to allow local officials the time to assess all impacts and consequences of a data center buildout.”

In October, Food & Water Watch became the first organization to call for a nationwide data center moratorium and hundreds of local, state, and national organizations have since joined the call.

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