Biden puts Mayor Johnson on faster timetable to replace Chicago…
WEB1 day ago · The Chicago mandate is part of a national plan to remove harmful lead pipes. The city of Chicago required all new construction to include the lead lines through 1986, the year a federal law banned ...
Biden puts Johnson on faster timetable to replace Chicago’s lead pipes ...
WEB11 hours ago · The city of Chicago has received $336 million in federal funding to replace lead piping across the city, NBC Chicago’s Courtney Sisk reports. President Joe Biden sped up a mandate for Chicago to ...
New rules speed up Chicago lead pipe removal - Axios
WEB2 days ago · In 2021, Chicago officials estimated removals would cost around $20,000 per home — nearly five times higher than the average in most U.S. cities. More recently local officials estimated they could remove 30,000 lines with a $336 million federal loan, which would cost about $11,000 per line. So far, Chicago officials have removed 5,844 lead ...
New EPA Rule Sets 10-Year Deadline for Lead Line Replacement, …
WEB1 day ago · Chicago — whose 400,000 lead service lines are the most of any city in the U.S. — is among the 1%. The city was given 20 years to replace its lines — some 30 years less than a prior goal — with the caveat of needing to regularly demonstrate an effort to replace service lines “as quickly as feasible.”
Biden-Harris Administration Issues Final Rule Requiring …
WEB1 day ago · WASHINGTON – Today, October 8, the Biden-Harris Administration issued a final rule requiring drinking water systems across the country to identify and replace lead pipes within 10 years. The Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) also require more rigorous testing of drinking water and a lower threshold requiring communities to take action to protect people from lead exposure in water.
Biden EPA requires Chicago to dramatically speed up replacement …
WEB1 day ago · Chicago must replace every toxic lead pipe connecting homes to water mains within two decades — an aggressive deadline imposed this week by President Joe Biden after his administration initially proposed giving city officials twice as long to complete the job. The more stringent requirement is part of a broader package of changes in federal regulations intended to protect Americans from a ...
Biden requires U.S. cities to replace lead pipes nationwide - NPR
WEB1 day ago · Officials are using money from the federal infrastructure law to accelerate lead-pipe replacement work and meet a goal to remove all lead pipes within 10 years, down from an initial 60-year timeframe.
Chicago's lead-pipe plan needs outreach, acceleration, experts say
WEBMay 27, 2024 · Chicago has the highest number of lead service lines in the nation, with close to 400,000 lead pipes supplying water to the city’s residents. And many homeowners with properties built...
Biden sets a 10-year deadline for US cities to replace lead pipes …
WEB1 day ago · A decade after the Flint, Michigan, water crisis raised alarms about the continuing dangers of lead in tap water, President Joe Biden is setting a 10-year deadline for cities across the nation to r…
Biden to Announce Plan Replacing All US Lead Pipes in a Decade
WEB1 day ago · Listen. 1:22. President Joe Biden will announce a plan to replace all lead pipes in the country over the next 10 years, pledging an additional $2.6 billion from the Environmental Protection Agency ...