An Arizona creek threatened by pollution from a proposed copper mine near Phoenix will receive lead and copper contamination limits under a proposed consent decree that the Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday. Under the proposed decree, the EPA will establish a total maximum daily load,...
The proposal, called the lead and copper rule improvements, would for the first time require utilities to replace lead pipes even if their lead levels aren't too high. Most cities have not been forced to replace their lead pipes and many don't even know where they are. Some cities with ...
Role of the Water Main in a Lead Service Line Replacement Program: A Utility Case Study Flawed science begets flawed policy: EPA's Lead and Copper Rule, partial lead service line replacement, and elevated blood lead levels among children Yanna Lambrinidou, Marc A. Edwards Impact of galvanic ...
copper can leach into water with the wrong chemical content and thus just as with lead cause various metabolic syndromes and toxicological disadvantages all the way up to and including death that is often protracted and significantly debilitating. ...
“This technology and our method have great potential for allowing on-demand synthesis of fertilizers and could have an immense impact on the agricultural and energy sectors in developed and developing countries, and on efforts to reduce greenhouse gases from fossil fuels,” said lead researcher Meen...
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EPA is generally agreeing with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that better data on where lead service lines are located would improve the agency's oversight of the Safe Drinking Water Act Lead and Copper Rule (LCR), though the agency stops short of committing to GAO's call to ...
Rick Snyder (R) criticized the Environmental Protection Agency's lead and copper rule as being deficient and vowed his state would enact its own, more strict regulation to better protect human health. During his State of the State address Jan. 17, Snyder said his administration would be "...
EPA has sent its proposed lead and copper rule improvements (LCRI) to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for interagency review, though some states are hesitant to use federal loans to inventory their lead service lines, an initial requirement for communities once the rule ...