Advocates for clean water are celebrating Tuesday’s announcement from the White House that will require public drinking water systems to identify and replace lead water pipes within ten years. The U.S ...

On December 16, 1974, President Gerald Ford signed into law the Safe Drinking Water Act. Fifty years later, it remains one of America’s most important environmental laws and most effective public ...

A proposed new rule from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would mean that most cities have to replace their lead water pipes within a decade. That’s a big deal—but it doesn’t actually go far ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most U.S. cities would have to replace lead water pipes within 10 years under strict new rules proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency as the Biden administration moves to ...

All too often, Americans of all political stripes are quick to criticize the decisions made by the federal government or to raise concerns over whether Washington, D.C. understands the issues that ...

FILE - A copper water supply line, left, is shown connected to a water main after being installed for lead pipe, right, July 20, 2018, in Flint, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File) Water providers in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Iowa lawmaker introduced bipartisan legislation Thursday that would bolster funding to replace the more than 9 million lead ...

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 ...

OSHKOSH, Wis. (WLUK) -- Contractors in Oshkosh are currently working to flush a water intake pipeline from Lake Winnebago. The 60-inch pipe acts as a primary source of water for the city. The blockage ...

Climate-fueled floods can and have cut off access to essential clean water. We need funding for infrastructure and an end to climate-wrecking fossil fuels. Climate-fueled floods can and have cut off ...