But replacing the lead pipes that deliver water to millions of U.S. homes will cost tens of billions of dollars, and the push to eradicate them only gathered momentum after a water crisis in Flint ...

Climate In landmark move, EPA requires removal of all U.S. lead pipes in a decade. The rule finalized Tuesday, which could eliminate a toxic threat to American children, is projected to cost tens ...

The rule, initially proposed by the EPA in 2023, imposes the strictest limits on lead in drinking water since federal standards were first set decades ago and requires utilities to review their ...

About a decade after the Flint water crisis, the Biden administration is requiring the removal of most of the nation’s lead-contaminated water pipes within 10 years. The Environmental Protection ...

The new EPA rule is the strongest overhaul of lead-in-water standards in roughly three decades. Lead, a heavy metal used in pipes, paints, ammunition and many other products, is a neurotoxin that ...

Utilities will be required to take stock of their lead pipes and replace them over the next 10 years, a policy that four states — Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey and Rhode Island — have in ...

On every block dug up, crews attached new cast iron mains to old lead service lines — a practice EPA researchers found can disturb the protective coating inside pipes and result in slugs of lead ...

But replacing the lead pipes that deliver water to millions of U.S. homes will cost tens of billions of dollars, and the push to eradicate them only gathered momentum after a water crisis in Flint ...

Workers in Flint replace lead pipes In this photo from March 10, 2017. The EPA finalized a rule on Tuesday requiring water utilities to replace all lead pipes in the United States within a decade.