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Andrew Caballero-reynolds/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- 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 underinvestmen...

Most U.S. cities would have to replace lead water pipes within 10 years under strict new rules proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Andrew Caballero-reynolds/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- 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 sai...

The Environmental Protection Agency wants all lead pipes in the U.S. water system to be replaced in the next 10 years. Lead can cause irreversible cognitive damage and other health problems, particularly in children.

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When Sukky Bleck’s infant son was diagnosed last year with bilateral hydronephrosis, a condition preventing urine from draining from the kidney into the bladder, she started questioning herself. “Was it something I did? What did I do wrong? How can I fix it,” the 27-year-old Southeast Side resident said. Bleck said she soon became haunted by whether lead-contaminated drinking water might have ...

CHICAGO — In her basement on the South Side of Chicago, Crystal Vance beamed a flashlight on the water source for her home: a rusted and leaking lead pipe. Vance, 35, knows well the dangers of lead contamination. Her 5-year-old son tested for elevated levels of lead as a baby, something that still weighs on her conscience. “I felt like my body was poisoned,” she said. “And I was feeding my kid this poison.” Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York T...

Movements vocalist Pat Miranda talks us through the band’s brand-new album ‘RUCKUS!’, which is out now via Fearless Records.