Biden announces proposal to replace all lead water service lines in US within 10 years

The Biden administration has announced a proposal to “strengthen its Lead and Copper Rule that would require water systems to replace lead service lines within 10 years,” the White House said in a statement on Thursday.

According to the White House, more than 9.2 million American households connect to water through lead pipes and lead service lines and, due to “decades of inequitable infrastructure development and underinvestment,” many Americans are at risk of lead exposure.

“There is no safe level of exposure to lead, particularly for children, and eliminating lead exposure from the air, water, and homes is a crucial component of the Biden-Harris Administration’s historic commitment to advancing environmental justice,” the Biden administration said.

TropicalDingdong,

Flip your district blue in 18 years with this one weird trick!

GombeenSysadmin,

This is a greater threat to the republicans than gerrymandering is to the democrats!

TropicalDingdong,

REPUBLICANS HATE THIS WEIRD HACK!

oldbaldgrumpy,

A proposal. Woohoo.

dRLY,
@dRLY@lemmy.ml avatar

Key word is “proposal”, which will be used for the election. But will not be actually fought for, or if somehow makes it through will likely be gutted to give corps money and just retain the name. I am thinking it would be stopped just like all the bullshit was on technicalities that we never hear of except when shit that would help people is brought forward (the shit involving that stupid-ass parliamentarian a few years ago being a great example). And the mass public of liberals or otherwise the “um I really don’t care about politics” folks will just remember it was mentioned at some point and assume it was done. Just another failure of our larger problem of mass amnesia. Similar to how so many idiots voted for Biden over Bernie because they thought they both were for Medicare for All, since Biden had stated multiple times that “healthcare is a right”. Fuck him, his party, the Republicans, corpo media, and especially the capitalist ruling class that owns both parties!

01adrianrdgz,

woa that is very nice of him!! I’m not a person that is into politics but I applaud that decision, I think all presidents regardless of political orientation should be worried about the environment!!! I think Biden should also do something to Mexico, it would be very nice, like more money or something similar!

doctorcrimson,

Imagine if the next GOP president threw this out just like Trump did to every Obama policy he could. I think one of the most damaging examples was when Trump shut down the federal de-radicalization programs that disproportionally affected white supremacist groups. It’s right up there with removing the ICE 72 hour holding limits.

A_Random_Idiot,

a big bold plan to solve a major american problem?

Must be election season.

doctorcrimson,

TBF Biden has passed a ton of great stuff outside of election season.

Some of the very first things he did as POTUS was call for the replacement of the Anti-environmental EPA director and the ICE director, as well as reinstate protections for streams and waterways from runoff and the reimplementation of Criminal-Only ICE focus and 72 hour holding limitations.

The SAVE Act that is reducing Student Loan Payments as low as $0 a month

The Inflation Reduction Act which does everything from lower deficit and climate impact to lowering price of goods

Full support both through supplies and endorsing wider worldwide support for Ukraine against the Russian Invasion

Signed the 2022 update to the Respect for Marriage Act which includes protections for homosexual and transgender couples against discrimination in the search for employment or housing, which previously only force states to recognize interracial marriages from out of state

The massive infrastructure bill with little to no concessions, also avoiding a federal government shutdown

Bipartisan Safer Communities Act helps remove firearms from mentally unstable or convict individuals who likely obtained their firearms after previous president Trump removed the relevant background checks

Called for federal entities to review Marijauna’s place as a scheduled drug, and pardoned all previous small offences for the substance

So, not to say absolutely everything he’s done was only good, just that his policies have only slowed down or become worse near the end rather than what you implied.

Wahots,
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

Fuck yes. We have needed to get rid of that shit for awhile. I’d also love it if we converted over to metric at the same time, but I don’t think that’s as likely…

ghostdoggtv,

Fucking prick waited until the last year of his administration to announce this 10 year rule which he will only be able to defend for 4 years even if reelected. God damn fucking idiot democratic party.

CeeBee,

This is such a weirdly negative take on what’s ultimately a good thing, and it fully assumes he had this plan from the beginning.

FontMasterFlex,

with what money? the billions sent to ukraine? i’m ok with the proposal, but like most things dems dream up, there is little to no thought about funding. this is why most of the time the gop is against it. then people scream about how the gop is against providing clean drinking water. *facepalm

RalphFurley,

You think billions of cash and gold were sent to Ukraine ? lol

The Pentagon values the hardware and equipment at the then production costs that are just sitting there where either we pay to safely store and maintain the tanks, etc or safely dispose of expired munitions and ammo.

Or, you know, why not send over this surplus we already bought and paid for, paying to store it or destroy it, to a country defending itself from genocidal invaders and help stop imperialism.

Sure, there is overhead to and costs for all this, but it’s a drop in the bucket to what you think it is.

FontMasterFlex,

Ha. you think we have gold.

qwertyWarlord,

This is a hugely underrated win imo. We have no idea the damage lead is doing to us, we can only guess the damage in health problems is in the billions. Politicians usually don’t give a shit about this so for Biden to do so is a big outstretched hand and big achievement

telllos,

Republican might loose a lot of it’s voter base

ryathal,

It’s a win, but not really underrated. We can test for lead easily in both the water supply and people, there are some isolated areas it’s bad, but it’s not a problem in most areas.

aesthelete,

Waiting for a Republican to call this a woke, gay, Chinese conspiracy or whatever.

sweetnumb, (edited )

Why? I’m sure there are some vocal extremists who will shit on anything Biden does, but I know quite a few republicans and all them support this move. Do democrats and republicans really live under the illusion they’re so different from one another instead of almost exactly the same like they are?

I used to be a republican when I was young, mostly because they understand economics better, but then later I found myself disagreeing with them on social/censorship/privacy issues. One side wants to impede freedom one way, and the other wants to impede it the other way, that’s when I realized that both parties are hypocritical by nature. And I doubt it was knowingly designed this way, but all either side ever does is end up growing government and removing freedoms aside from the rare big wins towards actual liberty.

Didn’t mean to go into rant mode, it’s just annoying to me when democrats call republicans stupid or vice-versa. No, neither side is stupid. They have reasons for their beliefs, and while they do go through mental gymnastics to convince themselves their platform isn’t hypocritical, they’re both still coming from a place of trying to improve the world. But you bring that up and then people will use “whataboutism” all day to point to specific examples that seem particularly indefensible on one side or the other. This then makes productive discussion impossible. We all need to acknowledge that the “other” side aren’t heartless bastards who don’t care about the rich or who don’t know how money works or whatever ignorant complaint you have, actually take time and learn.

Edit: Truth struck much too hard for many people lmao

Ultraviolet,

Republicans are already against it.

IHadTwoCows,

Republicans absolutely are not better on economics in any way whatsoever. They borrow, spend, and saddle everyone with high interest. All of the trillions of debt is their doing, and theirs alone, and always has been.

sweetnumb,

Oh really? Let’s hear why you think this, I bet it’ll be good.

Agrivar,

Bless your heart.

Caradoc879,

Republicans are heartless evil bastards. Abortion bans. LGBT existence bans. Book bans. No gun controls. Underfunded education. Climate denial. Unchecked capitalism and inflation. Housing and stufent debt crises. Grifting trillions from taxpayers. Witch hunts against politicians family members who stayed out of politics. Sketchy relationships with the Russians, Chinese, and Saudis.

Fuck off, both sider. They are not the same.

sweetnumb,

They are the same. I’m sorry that you see yourself so much in them that you feel the need to lash out at me, but if that works for you whatever I suppose.

Caradoc879,

What are you talking about?

Maggoty,

In unrelated news totally not privately owned utility companies are about to sue the government with the argument, “the current Congress didn’t sign off on this regulatory change that an older Congress gave the agency the power to do.”

This and more in the decade long SCOTUS hates us all crisis.

Delta_V,

While we’re digging shit up, lets lay some fiber.

mlg,
@mlg@lemmy.world avatar

AT&T after taking my tax money: “hahahahahahahahahahahahahah no”

FrankTheHealer,

Watch them make all the pipes plastic and give a whole generation cancer from micro plastic ingestion lol

1847953620,

I’ll take plastic over lead any day

Clbull,

Sounds like he’s a-Biden by safety regulations.

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