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Republicans move to create millions of new voters

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/03/republicans-lead-exposure-rules

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TheUbieSeether cute/twink :marseyhissing:

7hr ago #7744843 Edited 7hr ago

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

So what's the acceptable rate changing from?

Does anyone know? Or is this more journoslop?

This is like reversing Biden's (or California's) decree to shift everyone to an EV by 2030, and then someone reasonable stops that, so now the journ*lists and other r-slurs can go on and on about how the world will die from pollution because of this.

!chuds !nonchuds, which one of you is being r-slurred?

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TheUbieSeether 6hr ago #7745006

So what's the acceptable rate changing from?

The legal limit was and still is 15ppb but Biden had a policy goal of zero. Utilities that have lead and copper pipes are required to have corrosion control measures (mostly limiting sodium, calcium & potassium and maintaining a more neutral pH).

It's the only contaminant we have a higher legal limit than the EU on, we are comparable or better on everything else. EU is 5ppb limit with all countries required to hit 1ppb by 2036.

Reversing the Biden policy is r-slurred. There is no safe exposure limit for lead like there is for other heavy metals. Any utilities still using lead pipes by the end of the 2030's are embezzling funds, they have been illegal to install since the 80's. US was the last high-income country in the world to stop installing them and was one of the last country to ban them, 50 years after the danger was known.

It's one of the last r-slurred hangouts from before Nixon, Carter & Reagan largely fixed the crazy.