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.

  • DarkGamer
    67•7 months ago

    Huzzah! Another great move by the Biden administration that will probably be overlooked by most commenters, like his labor board appointments that led to the recent union resurgence were.

      • @pimento64@sopuli.xyz
        66•7 months ago

        Do you do literally anything besides endless serial shitposting about how much you hate Joe Biden? It’s incessant. Get a grip, fucking weirdo.

          • @Serinus@lemmy.world
            37•7 months ago

            He’s doing a great job. He’s just too fucking old to go another four years.

            But I’m certainly not going to pass on Biden to vote for a dumbass tyrant that’s just about as old.

            I’ll look for someone to vote for in the primary, if there is one.

      • @MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
        9•7 months ago

        (I copied one of my comments verbatim here to save time)

        Oh, yeah. He hasn’t kept any promises. None at all.

        You don’t have to like him or his goals, but please refrain from lying about him. It’s bad form.

      • @assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
        9•7 months ago

        I’m afraid your opinion of the bare minimum is not the universal definition of it. You shouldn’t be surprised when people differ with you on that.

        When everything’s below the bare minimum, it becomes a meaningless metric. You’ll still have to rank the available options, and there can still be a huge difference between those options.