A decade after the Flint, Michigan, water crisis raised alarms about the continuing dangers of lead in tap water, President Joe Biden is setting a 10-year deadline for cities across the nation to replace their lead pipes, finalizing an aggressive approach aimed at ensuring that drinking water is safe for all Americans.
Biden is expected to announce the final Environmental Protection Agency rule Tuesday in the swing state of Wisconsin during the final month of a tight presidential campaign. The announcement highlights an issue — safe drinking water — that Kamala Harris has prioritized as vice president and during her presidential campaign. The new rule supplants a looser standard set by former President Donald Trump’s administration that did not include a universal requirement to replace lead pipes.
Biden and Harris believe it’s “a moral imperative” to ensure that everyone has access to clean drinking water, EPA Administrator Michael Regan told reporters Monday. “We know that over 9 million legacy lead pipes continue to deliver water to homes across our country. But the science has been clear for decades: There is no safe level of lead in our drinking water.’’
I mean good, but also Jesus Christ how is this even an issue in the states?
You’ve met us, right? Don’t we seem a little off? Now you know why.
Along with the other reasons, people were relatively content with the excuse that the layer of buildup within the pipes would protect from the lead.
Big business pays off everyone from the top down to ignore that the issue is killing everyone, from the top down.
It’s expensive and time consuming to replace pipes. Many cities don’t have accurate maps of their pipes either. The actual danger from the existing pipes is extremely low under normal circumstances.
Because our country has always been ruled by corporations and at one point we had a bunch of lead that companies couldn’t sell at a high enough price so the pushed it in all sorts of applications it should have never been in. It’s the same reason we add fluoride to drinking water.
Lead has many amazing properteis in metalurgy.
floride is NOT toxic in normal quantities. That is a myth you hear from the same people who spread anti vax garbage.
I never said fluoride was toxic in normal quantities, but the reason we put fluoride in drinking water is because of lobbying. Fluoride was and is primarily an industrial waste product that was thrown out for decades, until several mining and material refinement companies lobbied the federal government along side state and local governments to legally dump the waste in drinking water, using the new at the time research that fluoride can help tooth health as an excuse.
This is despite the fact fluoride has no effect on tooth health when consumed, and there are not high enough levels in drinking water to have a topical effect like in toothpaste. We’re quite literally just lucky it’s not toxic until you get to really high levels.
You are so confident in refuting so much peer reviewed research that disproves what you’re saying. I’m all for ‘fuck the corporations’ on most things, but this is Facebook level nonsense.
Now I’m kinda curious what happens to all the arsenic you usually get from gold mines. Do you still make skincare products with it?
That’s so fucked up.