From the 2010s: Remember the Flint water crisis and Little Miss Flint, dealing with drinking water contaminated with lead?
https://meetthemotivators.com/project/little-miss-flint/?
And the Biden administration issuing rules to require all the country’s lead pipes to be replaced over the next 13 years? But now those rules may be repealed.
From https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/03/republicans-lead-exposure-rules:
The Trump administration is “saying let them drink lead”, said Erik Olson, senior adviser to the NRDC Action Fund.
“It’s a bad look to support lead poisoning children,” Olson added. “Not the best foot forward for the new Congress.”
h/t @sindarina
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