The article reports on the move of the Environmental Protection Agency to revise the rule concerning lead in drinking water in the U.S. Under the proposed revisions, the new rules would cover revisi...
With the release of the EPA's findings, the White House has alreadyannounced fundingfor states to improve their respective situations. In all, $6.5 billion will be provided to states for drinking water infrastructure upgrades, the White House said, with nearly $3 billion of that money going to...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule on Tuesday requiring the replacement of all lead drinking-water pipes within the next 10 years, a significant step to protect public health from the long-term effects of lead exposure. The new rule updates the Lead and Copper ...
“Lead indrinking wateris a generational public health issue, and EPA’s proposal will accelerate progress toward President Biden’s goal of replacing every lead pipe across America once and for all,” said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan in the press release. “With collaboration...
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. ...
“It was a tough fight within EPA,” Levin remembered. The agency did not force utilities to eliminate lead in drinking water, but instead required them to test for lead in homes and add anti-corrosive chemicals. The EPA set an action level of 15...
According to the report, lead service lines are estimated to make up over 9% of the entire national service line infrastructure, exposing much of America’s drinking water to lead contamination. The EPA says there are no safe levels of lead in children’s blood, as lead exposure has been ...
The Safe Drinking Water Act (SWDA), as enforced by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Water Division, has set the MCLG (Maximum Contaminant Level Goal) for lead at zero because there is no safe level of exposure to lead. (Source:https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water...
The study also demonstrates a scalable, citizen science-based drinking water testing strategy for Pb at childcare centers. METHODS :Licensed childcare centers in four North Carolina counties were recruited. One administrator per center completed a survey and was trained to collect first-draw drinking ...
EPA has issued its final rule tightening drinking water policies that will limit the lead content in plumbing materials -- changes the agency says will protect the public from lead consumption even though the finalized version drops language from the Obama-era proposal that would have required label...