Your Daily Dose of Climate Hope: October 31, 2024
Your Daily Dose of Climate Hope: October 31, 2024
President Biden leads the charge to end lead poisoning!
President Biden and the EPA are now requiring every single public drinking water system in America to rip out and replace brain-poisoning lead pipes within 10 years, and the BIL already provides the funding to make it happen.
Tell Congress that you support expanding funding for President Biden and the EPA’s fight against lead poisoning!
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Reasons For Hope
The Biden-Harris Administration’s EPA has finalized a truly heroic new rule that legally requires every single public drinking water system in America to rip out and replace every single neurotoxin-bearing lead pipe within 10 years. This is a triumphant capstone to President Biden’s multifaceted leadership on this issue! The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law included $15 billion in new funding to support the mass replacing of lead pipes that this new rule makes a legal requirement (much of this funding has already been sent to lead-afflicted cities from Detroit to Denver!), and the Biden-Harris Administration recently launched a new global initiative to fight the scourge of lead poisoning around the world.
“Folks, what is a government for if it cannot protect the public health?
We’re finally addressing an issue that should’ve been addressed a long time ago in this country.”
—President Joe Biden
Notably, lead poisoning is also a climate issue: higher lead poisoning levels are observed in warmer weather for both animals and people, as warmer temperatures make lead more “bioavailable” and likely to poison the body.
It’s entirely possible that in terms of sheer raw gains in human well-being, leading the charge to end mass-brain-damaging lead poisoning will be the single greatest, most epoch-shaping, and just plain heroic legacy of the Biden era. Absolutely SUPERB work!
“We’ve known for decades that lead exposure has serious long-term impacts for children’s health. And yet, millions of lead service lines are still delivering drinking water to homes.
President Biden is putting an end to this generational public health problem. With the Lead and Copper Rule Improvements and historic investments in lead pipe replacement, the Biden-Harris Administration is fulfilling its commitment that no community, regardless of race, geography or wealth, should have to worry about lead-contaminated water in their homes.”
—EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan.
This is an incredibly important issue, and it’s still massively underreported. The public servants leading the charge on lead poisoning are doing it not because it’s popular or attention-grabbing, but because it’s good and right. There’s already been some truly excellent progress on funding the fight against lead poisoning, but there’s such a big issue that there’s an urgent need for more, particularly for international efforts.