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.

  • @doctorcrimson
    12•7 months ago

    TBF Biden has passed a ton of great stuff outside of election season.

    Some of the very first things he did as POTUS was call for the replacement of the Anti-environmental EPA director and the ICE director, as well as reinstate protections for streams and waterways from runoff and the reimplementation of Criminal-Only ICE focus and 72 hour holding limitations.

    The SAVE Act that is reducing Student Loan Payments as low as $0 a month

    The Inflation Reduction Act which does everything from lower deficit and climate impact to lowering price of goods

    Full support both through supplies and endorsing wider worldwide support for Ukraine against the Russian Invasion

    Signed the 2022 update to the Respect for Marriage Act which includes protections for homosexual and transgender couples against discrimination in the search for employment or housing, which previously only force states to recognize interracial marriages from out of state

    The massive infrastructure bill with little to no concessions, also avoiding a federal government shutdown

    Bipartisan Safer Communities Act helps remove firearms from mentally unstable or convict individuals who likely obtained their firearms after previous president Trump removed the relevant background checks

    Called for federal entities to review Marijauna’s place as a scheduled drug, and pardoned all previous small offences for the substance

    So, not to say absolutely everything he’s done was only good, just that his policies have only slowed down or become worse near the end rather than what you implied.