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The Guardian - US
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Tom Perkins

Republicans move to repeal lead limits imposed by Biden-era rules

Workers replace lead water pipes with copper pipes in Newark, New Jersey, in 2021.
Workers replace lead water pipes with copper pipes in Newark, New Jersey, in 2021. Photograph: Seth Wenig/AP

Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration are attempting to repeal the Biden administration’s groundbreaking rules that require all the country’s lead pipes to be replaced over the next 13 years and lower the limit on lead in water.

Environmentalists expressed alarm about the moves, which, if successful, would in effect prohibit the government from ever requiring lead line replacement in the future, or lowering lead limits.

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