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The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a new rule Thursday aimed at strengthening its existing lead and copper pipe standards as part of the administration’s goal of lowering unsafe pollution levels and protecting vulnerable people from exposure to harmful drinking water.

It is the strongest overhaul of lead rules in more than three decades, and will cost billions of dollars. Pulling it off will require overcoming enormous practical and financial obstacles.

The new proposal is projected to cost $20 to $30 billion, the New York Times reports.

The Biden administration on Thursday proposed to require drinking water pipes made with lead to be replaced in 10 years. Under the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) newly proposed “Lead and Copper Rule Improvements,” water systems would have to replace lead service lines in 10 years, with limited exceptions. The proposal comes nearly a decade after…

The Biden administration on Thursday proposed new actions to replace lead pipes in public water systems across the country in a continuing effort to eliminate lead poisoning among children and families.

President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday announced it would require the removal of the nation's remaining lead pipes within a decade, preventing an estimated 22 million people from potential exposure to the toxic metal in their drinking water. Biden's administration announced its intention in 2021 to remove remaining lead lines over the coming years, but the plan was criticized for actually slowing down the rate of replacement and even allowing small public water syst...

Local utilities across the country would have to dig up and replace aging lead water pipes within 10 years under a Biden administration proposal.

A proposal announced Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency aims to remove all lead drinking water pipes across the country within a decade.

A federal official told 11 News Investigates that Baltimore is just at the beginning of a long road as it finally tries to address a decades-old problem.

  A federal official told 11 News Investigates that Baltimore is just at the beginning of a long road as it finally tries to address a decades-old problem. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Adam Ortiz told 11