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Biden administration announces plan to replace 100% of lead pipes in US homes
The Biden administration on Thursday announced a "whole of government strategy" to remove dangerous lead from Americans' drinking water, including billions of dollars to begin replacing 100% of the lead pipes servicing the nation's homes.
Environmental groups praised the plan, which includes a promise to begin the process of strengthening the nation's drinking water standards to reflect the science showing that lead is toxic for children at any level.
But lawyers at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), which has been leading efforts to fight lead, said they worry that the plan lacks a solid timeline and fails to deliver enforceable requirements.
The set of actions announced by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) included the release of the first $2.9bn of $15bn approved in Biden's infrastructure plan for local water agencies to begin replacing lead pipes and called for the efforts to focus on the low-income communities who face the most risk of lead poisoning. It also listed 15 new actions across 10 federal agencies to address lead dangers from both water and paint.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DannyB on Friday December 17 2021, @10:33PM (13 children)
What we need is some sane country like the UK to send the US an emergency airlift of education, thought control and dark sarcasm.
If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 17 2021, @11:25PM (1 child)
Also training how to pronouce Worcestershire.
Woos-Ta-Cester-Chester-Shur Shire.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 18 2021, @12:53AM
*What's this here sauce?!*
(Score: 2) by zocalo on Saturday December 18 2021, @08:47AM (3 children)
You *have* seen who we chose (twice!) to be our Prime Minister, yes? Populism is a terrible drug...
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 18 2021, @12:26PM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 19 2021, @10:51PM (1 child)
You left out Biden ...
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday December 20 2021, @02:56PM
And Trump.
Oh, wait. He didn't actually win the popular vote.
If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious
(Score: 1, Troll) by mcgrew on Saturday December 18 2021, @09:18PM (4 children)
All but the dark sarcasm, our "alt right" (racist assholes) are far too stupid. And thought control? How do you think Trump got elected?
Carbon, The only element in the known universe to ever gain sentience
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 19 2021, @04:18AM
He got elected despite wall-to-wall mainstream news coverage about how he was bad and evil. It took another four years of non-stop thought control and a pandemic to get rid of him.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 19 2021, @10:59PM (2 children)
The left are the racist ones, not the right.
Remember, the republican party was created to oppose slavery. The republicans freed the slaves and gave blacks and women the right to vote. The democrats passed the Jim Crow laws. What have the democrats done besides advocate for racism?
Biden even said he didn't want his son to go to a mixed race school because he called it a mixed jungle. Biden is a democrat so he's from the same racist party that supports racism.
The Nazi party is the Nazi Socialist party. Democrats are the party of the KKK.
Stop projecting the unpopular history of your own party onto your opponents. You keep repeating the same lie over and over thinking that if you repeat it enough it will make it true. No matter how many times you, or the mainstream media, repeats the same lie a lie is a lie is a lie.
The left is still racist. From things like California passing laws with racist racial and gender quotas (ie: for board of director positions) that apply to some races (but not others), to things like universities holding people of certain races to lower test score standards (ie: discriminating against Asians because they tend to rank higher on tests). The left has always been the racist ones and are still the racist ones. They try to divide us by race, class, gender, religion, etc... so they turn us against each other which distracts us from the true villains, the politicians themselves. Luckily, it's not working because the politicians are very unpopular now and people see through their nonsense.
CNN lost a substantial number of its viewers. It wonders what it's doing wrong and complains that conservative Youtube channels receive more views than they do. They almost want the government to intervene. What they're doing wrong is they keep telling lies and repeating the same lies over and over and over. and people are fed up with it, they're not stupid. and you keep repeating the same lies over and over but no one is buying it anymore. Stop with the divisive lying.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 19 2021, @11:05PM
The only way the left can win the dialog is if they silence their critics (like they do in socialist countries).
The MOMENT the left loses their monopoly on the dialog they lose the debate. That's why they resort to silencing their critics as much as they can. They have no choice, their position is absolutely indefensible in the face of criticism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 19 2021, @11:50PM
Whenever the democrats lose the discussion they simply keep repeating the same played out lies over and over and over again because they can't come up with a real response. Their lies are played out, have been refuted multiple times, and no one believes them anymore.
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Sunday December 19 2021, @12:49AM (1 child)
They sent us Monty Python and Douglas Adams, among others. What more are they expected to do?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday December 20 2021, @03:11PM
They could have sent us the ones who wrote the lyrics about not needing any education, thought control or teachers not having dark sarcasm in the classrooms and leaving those kids alone.
If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious