As municipalities, water authorities and homeowners are grappling with ridding infrastructure of the health risk that lead water service lines can pose, there are still two major obstacles – logistics ...

Crews excavate water lines during a utility replacement project. EPA’s updated state inventories show about 4 million lead service lines nationwide—less than half earlier estimates—driving a $3 ...

TROY, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul announced in a press release that $269 million is being allocated to local municipalities to undertake water and sewer infrastructure improvement projects, with $16.7 ...

Chicago has a lead pipe problem. The city estimates that about 412,000 out of roughly 491,000 water service lines require replacement because they are known or suspected to contain lead. That’s the ...

Louisiana will get $412,000 in grant funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to remove lead pipes for schools and childcare facilities across the state. The EPA announced in June that ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Lead pipes are ubiquitous. At this point, no state has gotten rid of all of its toxic ...

Massachusetts will receive more than $55 million from the Environmental Protection Agency this year to help municipalities and other water providers find and replace lead service lines. The money ...

Lead pipes are ubiquitous. At this point, no state has gotten rid of all of its toxic lead service lines, which pipe drinking water to homes and businesses. But some cities like Chicago, New York City ...