President Biden has announced a plan to “strengthen its Lead and Copper Rule that would require water systems to replace lead service lines within 10 years."
The Biden administration has announced a proposal to “strengthen its Lead and Copper Rule that would require water systems to replace lead service lines within 10 years,” the White House said in a statement on Thursday.
According to the White House, more than 9.2 million American households connect to water through lead pipes and lead service lines and, due to “decades of inequitable infrastructure development and underinvestment,” many Americans are at risk of lead exposure.
“There is no safe level of exposure to lead, particularly for children, and eliminating lead exposure from the air, water, and homes is a crucial component of the Biden-Harris Administration’s historic commitment to advancing environmental justice,” the Biden administration said.
Huzzah! Another great move by the Biden administration that will probably be overlooked by most commenters, like his labor board appointments that led to the recent union resurgence were.
"An initial estimate is that 25% of domestic dwellings in the EU have a lead pipe, either as a connection to the water main, or as part of the internal plumbing, or both, potentially putting 120 million people at risk from lead in drinking water within the EU. "
This is a hugely underrated win imo. We have no idea the damage lead is doing to us, we can only guess the damage in health problems is in the billions. Politicians usually don't give a shit about this so for Biden to do so is a big outstretched hand and big achievement
my little town is replacing all the water mains.. when the streets above them need repair or rebuilding, along with the lines to customers where needed. they've done two streets in the last ten years, each about 8-10 blocks long. they've got a long ways to go. 10 years ain't nearly enough time unless someone is gonna pony-up a ton of cash.
Key word is "proposal", which will be used for the election. But will not be actually fought for, or if somehow makes it through will likely be gutted to give corps money and just retain the name. I am thinking it would be stopped just like all the bullshit was on technicalities that we never hear of except when shit that would help people is brought forward (the shit involving that stupid-ass parliamentarian a few years ago being a great example). And the mass public of liberals or otherwise the "um I really don't care about politics" folks will just remember it was mentioned at some point and assume it was done. Just another failure of our larger problem of mass amnesia. Similar to how so many idiots voted for Biden over Bernie because they thought they both were for Medicare for All, since Biden had stated multiple times that "healthcare is a right". Fuck him, his party, the Republicans, corpo media, and especially the capitalist ruling class that owns both parties!
In unrelated news totally not privately owned utility companies are about to sue the government with the argument, "the current Congress didn't sign off on this regulatory change that an older Congress gave the agency the power to do."
This and more in the decade long SCOTUS hates us all crisis.
I'm pretty sure we replaced ours in the 70's. But better late than never I guess.
But we also replaced it for wiring, because you know... it's kind of poisonous.
Fuck yes. We have needed to get rid of that shit for awhile. I'd also love it if we converted over to metric at the same time, but I don't think that's as likely...
Imagine if the next GOP president threw this out just like Trump did to every Obama policy he could. I think one of the most damaging examples was when Trump shut down the federal de-radicalization programs that disproportionally affected white supremacist groups. It's right up there with removing the ICE 72 hour holding limits.
Shouldn't states and cities be responsible for doing this, not the federal government? People in one state shouldn't be paying for the failure of another state to provide necessary infrastructure.
with what money? the billions sent to ukraine? i'm ok with the proposal, but like most things dems dream up, there is little to no thought about funding. this is why most of the time the gop is against it. then people scream about how the gop is against providing clean drinking water. *facepalm
Shouldn't states and cities be responsible for doing this, not the federal government? People in one state shouldn't be paying for the failure of another state to provide necessary infrastructure.
Fucking prick waited until the last year of his administration to announce this 10 year rule which he will only be able to defend for 4 years even if reelected. God damn fucking idiot democratic party.
Ten years? Ya so that's millions of people mostly kids being exposed to lead over those years. They can get those pipes swapped in two years of they actually cared. Saying ten years sounds like, "Ya we'll get to it eventually." the army core of engineers should be doing this kind of stuff not private companies.
Ps flint still hasn't gotten their pipes fixed. So sorry to be pessimistic.