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.

  • WashedOver
    571·
    2 years ago

    Those that purposely destroyed the water systems with cuts in Flint Michigan should have been quartered in a public square.

    Sadly in reality they probably received bonuses and perks.

      • KnightontheSun@lemmy.world
        13·
        2 years ago

        We are such a short-sighted country

        We see about as far as the next quarter’s profits. That seems to be the marker. Apparently, the future isn’t really worth looking at past that.

    • FanciestPants@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 years ago

      A friend of mine was starting into a tirade a while back about how terrible it is that all water pipe installed in houses today is plastic even though we know BPAs are killing people. I suggested that they might be better than lead pipe. We still high five from time to time.

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
      7·
      2 years ago

      This is one of those times I’m like why are mass shootings always schools and bars and not assholes like the people responsible for this

      • WashedOver
        2·
        2 years ago

        Wasn’t it a theme there for awhile to go Postal? I can’t recall if that was about co-workers, management, the general public or all of the above?

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      I know people were charged for their involvement in the crisis but from what I can tell they got out of the charges. I think there may be a case that is still pending, though

    • MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
      41·
      2 years ago

      I linked an article in one of my comments that describes the criminal cases. They did not get off scot free as of 2021.