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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 systems to avoid replaci

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