The EPA estimates that nine million homes in the U.S. have lead pipes.

President Biden on Tuesday announced $2.6 billion in funding to replace all lead pipes in the United States as part of a new EPA rule that will require lead pipes to be identified and replaced within 10 years using the new funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    So anyone with lead in their pipes has to continue to be poisoned for up to ten years before the government generously deems them worthy of clean water.