President Joe Biden announced Thursday $3 billion toward identifying and replacing theĀ nationā€™s unsafeĀ leadĀ pipes,Ā a long-sought move to improve public health and clean drinking waterĀ that will be paidĀ for by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Biden unveiled the new fundingĀ in North Carolina, a battleground state Democrats have lost to Donald Trump in the past two presidential electionsĀ but are feeling more bullish toward due to an abortion measure on the stateā€™s ballot this November.

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The Environmental Protection Agency will invest $3 billion in theĀ leadĀ pipe effort annually through 2026, Administrator Michael Regan told reporters. He said that nearly 50% of the funding will go to disadvantaged communities ā€“ and a fact sheet from the Biden administration noted that ā€œlead exposure disproportionately affects communities of color and low-income families.ā€

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    6 months ago

    It will have an effect in decades. The people that got affected are unlikely to get better. The biggest damage is being exposed to lead during childhood.

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      I think weā€™re starting to see this effect from the lead we removed throughout the 80s, everything from crime to religion has been falling for the past 2 decades.

      I donā€™t think it was all lead, but I think itā€™s playing a decent part.

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      Yeah, but decades is a blink of the eye, as these things are measured. And honestly, I donā€™t think a fair amount of Congress has even one more decade left in them.