🎺 🎺 The Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule Tuesday requiring water #utilities to replace all #leadpipes within a decade, a move aimed at eliminating a #toxic threat that continues to affect tens of thousands of American children each year.
The move also tightens the amount of lead allowed in the nation’s drinking water, coming 40 years after Congress determined that #lead pipes posed a serious #risk to public #health and #banned them in new construction.