Getting the lead out, 10 years after Flint
The Biden administration has taken the most significant step toward protecting our drinking water from lead since the start of the Flint, Michigan, water crisis a decade ago.
Clean water
Together we can protect the waterways that sustain our communities and our health.
Our waterways should be safe for swimming, fishing and drinking. But weak regulations and lax enforcement allow many of our rivers, lakes and streams to become so polluted they are no longer safe. This pollution, along with outdated infrastructure – like lead pipes in our schools – puts our health at risk. We need to work together to make sure our water is treated like the life-giving resource that it is.
The Latest on Clean water
Milwaukee joins the honor roll for safer drinking water at school
STATEMENT: EPA releases $26 million to get the lead out of schools’ water
Updates
Tell the EPA: Replace lead service lines and filter schools’ drinking water
Why we’re supporting a ban on TCE
New Report: The Threat of ‘Forever Chemicals’
The International Plastic Pellet Count
Volunteers across America and beyond will be hosting plastic pellet counts and clean up events at their local waterways to help identify where plastic pellet pollution is happening and make the case for action.
IN-PERSON
Organize your own pellet count
Featured Resources
Accidents Waiting to Happen: Factory Farms
Pollution in the path of Hurricane Milton in Florida
Accidents Waiting to Happen
Accidents Waiting to Happen: Hazardous Materials by Rail
The Latest
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RELEASE: EPA sets 10-year deadline for replacing lead pipes
The EPA's new rule sets a 10-year deadline for replacing lead pipes but does not require measures to safeguard our kids' drinking water at school.
Public urges Minnesota officials to bar 3M from releasing PFAS
Dangerous and unnecessary: New report finds we shouldn’t mine the deep sea
New report outlines how mining operations could destroy vulnerable ecosystems off our coasts.
New report: Colorado schools have homework to remove lead from drinking water
Analysis finds many fountains, faucets in Colorado that tested positive for lead still need remediation a year later.
Statement: New rule will aid PFAS clean-ups
EPA lists two toxic PFAS chemicals under Superfund law