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With the Environmental Protection Agency’s latest — and strictest — plan to minimize the risk of Americans drinking lead-contaminated water on the horizon, the debate over whether the agency’s ...

Greater Cincinnati Water Works has been urging customers with lead pipes to replace them for eight years. Now, it will redouble that effort, at the federal government’s direction. The utility next ...

Syracuse, NY – Syracuse fell far short of its promise to remove 3,000 dangerous lead water pipes this year. Instead, it replaced only 700 of the lines that bring drinking water into homes. That ...