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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: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 17 2021, @10:59PM (13 children)
So... they're claiming that being unwealthy increases your susceptibility to lead poisoning? Or that an increase in wealth increases your resistance to heavy metals?
Wtf is going on with these people?
It's _old_ communities (New England, especially non-new construction) that face the most likelihood of having lead water pipes. The projects around me are all new construction. They don't have to worry about lead. My property is 120 years old. _I_ have to worry about lead pipes and water feed, not the poor.
(Score: 4, Informative) by sjames on Friday December 17 2021, @11:30PM (1 child)
As a whole, the poor are statistically more likely to live in places where the lead pipes have never been replaced or lined. You may be an outlier or the municipal water pipes may have been lined. In any event, you can get that tested fairly easily.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 18 2021, @08:21AM
But do you have anything for his butthurt?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Username on Friday December 17 2021, @11:32PM (8 children)
They are insinuating that all black people are poor and all white people are rich and oppressive. Been their montra for the past few years. Biden even said it out loud. This is most likely targeting michigan's black population that aren't going to vote for the D guy since they can't even drink their water in the D ran town. Cant have that D go R in the midterms.
But, yeah, all the money will just get sent to hunteresque type contractors, and nothing will get done.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 17 2021, @11:38PM
We could invade Iraq again... Terrists etc. That still work?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 17 2021, @11:47PM (3 children)
I'm sure you have a direct quote to cite then. Not like it matters, no one wanted the old racist grandpa but DNC corruption gave us no choice. As long as conservatives remain batshit insane willing to go all Jihad on liberals it is unlikely we'll be able to break the corporate grip on US politics.
I'm sure your hunteresque comment includes the 4 years of Donny's nepotism with his children. You'll totally condemn them, any minute now..........
(Score: 3, Informative) by Username on Saturday December 18 2021, @12:32AM (2 children)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idpevmeoK1A [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 18 2021, @06:01PM (1 child)
Wow that is your citation? A word mixup from an old racist? No mention of the oppression, so your citation at best is 25% supportive of your thesis. Please remember this next time someone calls you an idiot. Also, care to revisit Don's wide selection of racist quotes? I'm sure a principled man such as yourself will condemn and disavow without regard for political affiliation /s No way you'd let a false narrative override your integrity! I don't like Biden, but you hypocrites are worse by a wide margin.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 18 2021, @08:01PM
Too much lead in his pipes is what leads him to fall for such crap.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday December 18 2021, @09:48PM (2 children)
That's nonsense. My favorite bar is in the worst part of Springfield. There are about an equal number of Whites and Blacks living in that neighborhood, because it's not about race, it's about wealth. You will find very few Blacks in the west side McMansions because very few Blacks have the money, but poor whites still outnumber poor blacks. Race is a tool of the rich to keep the poor from understanding who's really holding them down.
Carbon, The only element in the known universe to ever gain sentience
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 19 2021, @05:15AM (1 child)
How do you explain to people losing their jobs to cheap immigrants that stopping immigration isn't the solution?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 19 2021, @06:53AM
Point out that most of the good jobs are being shipped overseas and that the profits are going to the elites.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 18 2021, @12:31AM (1 child)
Wealthy people are more likely to live in areas with better pipes, are more likely to test their water and are more likely to be able to afford to filter the water for lead or buy bottled water than poor people are. At pretty much every step along the chain, the wealthy are more likely to have some way of reducing their risk that are less affordable or impossible for those with less money.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 18 2021, @08:23AM
Um... I think that's a feature, not a bug.