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.

  • Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net
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    2 months ago

    Flint also exemplifies the issue well how the people that knowingly chose to poison a city faced zero consequences.