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Trump Admin Moves Ahead With Biden’s 10-Year Deadline for Lead Pipe Replacements

Replacing lead storage lines is the only way to comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act’s mandate to prevent anticipated adverse health effects, the EPA said.
Trump Admin Moves Ahead With Biden’s 10-Year Deadline for Lead Pipe Replacements
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington on Jan. 6, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times
Kimberly Hayek
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The Trump administration on Friday affirmed a 10-year deadline for most cities and towns to replace dangerous lead pipes, informing a federal court that it will maintain a major drinking-water overhaul finalized in October 2024 under the Biden administration.  
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) notified the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that it will continue with the strongest overhaul to lead-in-water standards in three decades. 
Kimberly Hayek
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Kimberly Hayek is a reporter for The Epoch Times. She covers California news and has worked as an editor and on scene at the U.S.-Mexico border during the 2018 migrant caravan crisis.