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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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 17 2021, @11:09PM (7 children)
The Trump administration rejected the advice of experts, instead allowing lead pipes to remain in infrastructure [chicagotribune.com] for many more decades and, in some cases, indefinitely. Many of these lead pipes are in areas with poorer people and disproportionately minority populations.
Right wingers will certainly tell us that the Trump administration's actions to allow lead pipes to remain was to protect us from economic damage, and regulating that lead pipes be replaced is Marxism. They will tell us that individuals have a choice about whether to buy homes in areas with lead pipes, and that the free market can solve this problem better than Marxist government regulations. Because many of the lead pipes that need to be replaced are in neighborhoods with large minority populations, right wingers will say that this is the result of critical race theory being taught in schools, and that it must be stopped. Right wingers know that replacing lead pipes is just more Marxism and critical race theory, and that we must not interfere in the free market. Isn't that right, Runaway and khallow?
I now await my troll mod. :)
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 17 2021, @11:32PM (1 child)
How proudly and prominently they display their ignorance and hypocrisy is about the only fun oart of the rightwing extremists. It will swuftly become less fun when they ramp up their domestic terrorism.
Good news is the corporatocracy is trying to reign in the crazy they unleashed with even Mitch McFuckle saying the 1/6 investigations need to uncover the truth behind the attack. Of course he waited until it was clear that 1/6 failed and became an albatross around the GOP neck. Expected from that evil twisted fucker, but will it shock any of the rightwing nutters back to reality? Or will they double down and go full not-sees.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 18 2021, @05:56PM
i hope you get shot in your face.
(Score: 2, Offtopic) by Username on Friday December 17 2021, @11:35PM (4 children)
I didn't know Trump was indefinitely President.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 17 2021, @11:53PM
So you specialize in being a dumbass, cute.
(Score: 2) by jelizondo on Friday December 17 2021, @11:54PM (2 children)
Just wait until the next election, then he'll be "Beloved President Trump" for life...
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 18 2021, @12:33AM (1 child)
So will Biden, but then again, at his age and his state of health, he might just drop dead before he hits the next election.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 19 2021, @02:29AM
He's already brain dead.