EPA Proposes Limiting Lead In Drinking Water Supplies; Plan Assailed for Failure to Regulate Metal at the TapMichael Weisskopf
Now, theEnvironmental Protection Agencyis aiming to further reduce lead levels in drinking water and tighten a rule that failed to prevent drinking water crises in cities like Flint, Michigan and Newark, New Jersey. Although the specifics aren’t public,...
Another Year, Another Delay for EPA Limits on Lead in WaterThe EPA has a long way to go before it completes a years-long effort to lower the legal amount of lead that can be in drinking water, senior officials in the agency told Bloomberg Environment. This is despite the fact that the...
Drinking Water: EPA Should Strengthen Ongoing Efforts to Ensure That Consumers Are Protected from Lead Contamination: GAO-06-148. Elevated lead levels in the District of Columbia's tap water in 2003 prompted questions about how well consumers are protected nationwide. The Environmenta... Stephenson...
The EPA enacted the first comprehensive lead in drinking water regulations in 1991. Those have significantly helped reduce lead levels, but experts have said they left loopholes that keep lead levels too high and lax enforcement allows cities to ignore the problem. ...
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aIn a similar fashion, the EPA’s decision to reduce the drinking water standard for lead from 50 ppb to 5 ppb, in 1986, resulted in bans on use of lead in plumbing solders and fixtures to avoid exceedances due to leaching of lead into drinking water. 相似地,使饮用水标准降低的EPA的...
Water Utilities Get Years to Limit Lead; EPA Regulation, Due Today, Faulted for Lengthy Compliance PlanMichael Weisskopf
If you want to limit your exposure to PFAS in drinking water, you can ask your water utility how it is testing for the chemicals, or have your water tested by a state-certified laboratory using EPA-testing standards. There areseveral technologiesavailable to purchase to filter PFAS from your...