Biden unveils $3 billion for nationwide lead pipe replacement
Biden unveils $3 billion for nationwide lead pipe replacement
President Joe Biden announced Thursday $3 billion toward identifying and replacing the nation’s unsafe lead pipes, a long-sought move to improve public health and clean drinking water that will be paid for by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
President Joe Biden announced Thursday $3 billion toward identifying and replacing the nation’s unsafe lead pipes, a long-sought move to improve public health and clean drinking water that will be paid for by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Biden unveiled the new funding in North Carolina, a battleground state Democrats have lost to Donald Trump in the past two presidential elections but are feeling more bullish toward due to an abortion measure on the state’s ballot this November.
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The Environmental Protection Agency will invest $3 billion in the lead pipe effort annually through 2026, Administrator Michael Regan told reporters. He said that nearly 50% of the funding will go to disadvantaged communities – and a fact sheet from the Biden administration noted that “lead exposure disproportionately affects communities of color and low-income families.”
This is huge...
I don't get a chance to be happy with Biden often, but this is one of the rare times.
Lead poisoning doesn't just hurt people's health, it makes the stupid and belligerent. Like, those are the actual effects of it.
There's a reason the benefits of banning leaded gas takes decades, it's not helping those who already have lead poisoning, it's just waiting for a new generation to grow up without it.
This is like one of those "best time to plant a tree" things.
The benefits are really far away, but doing it is a huge investment in our future as a society.
It's reassuring to know society overall will be more sane when I'm old.
127Damn Libruls trying to take away our poisonous lead pipes
25Infrastructure updates? Fuck yeah!
13Like, to actually do it? Or for companies to pocket the money and give up on it soon after, like with the infrastructure upgrade we should already have?
12Welcome to the 1800s.
6You still..?
5And what did he do for the last 3.5 years? Not a damned thing, buying more votes it seems.
-7Jesus fucking Christ we are in an election year. How the FUCK are lead pipes a thing to begin with, let alone what you'd roll with on policy? Aren't the boomers dead for the most part? Can we do something about wage stagnation or the absurd state of home ownership or OBNOXIOUS FUCKING RENT???!??!? I really am fucking sick of this hick ass bullshit backwater country. The only reason we mean shit to anyone is because they fuck us on taxes to fund a bloated ass military, and in turn line corpos pockets. Fuck me I'm done. Going to go live off the land (aka going to go starve to death like an idiot because fuck if I know anything about farming)
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