After decades of pressure to replace the 9.2 million lead pipes in the U.S. with a less toxic material, the EPA has set a ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced this month that it will require utilities to replace all lead ...
Key Takeaways - What Happened? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its final Lead and Copper Rule ...
President Biden's goal of replacing all lead pipes in the U.S. within 10 years has now become a federal rule, and money is ...
On every block dug up, crews attached new cast iron mains to old lead service lines — a practice EPA researchers found can disturb the protective coating inside pipes and result in slugs of lead ...
In a ruling issued Thursday, the EPA is cracking down on lead paint dust that remains in millions of homes and poses a health ...
Advocates say vulnerable communities can’t afford to wait 20 years for service line replacement and that more outreach is ...
The utility company has been replacing lead service lines since 2012. New federal guidelines put a timeline on how quickly ...
Biden administration keeps working to reduce the nation’s vulnerability to lead, but relief can’t come soon enough for some.
Today's announcement is expected to reduce the lead exposure of up to 1.2 million people every year and represents one of ...
A new study from Corona Environmental Consulting, a consulting firm dedicated to finding solutions to complex water treatment process issues, expands on previous EPA cost-benefit analysis to show that ...