The EPA estimates that nine million homes in the U.S. have lead pipes.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20665840

President Biden on Tuesday announced $2.6 billion in funding to replace all lead pipes in the United States as part of a new EPA rule that will require lead pipes to be identified and replaced within 10 years using the new funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    124·
    1 month ago
    • The citizens in those cities don’t deserve to have lead poisoning regardless of what city and state officials are willing to allocate to it.
    • Some cities just objectively have worse lead problems than others.
    • This feels like the “well I paid off my student loans through hard work, so why should they get theirs paid off for free?” argument. (They are still paying through their own funds too; they’re just receiving federal help to accelerate it.)
    • Having citizens that aren’t poisoned by lead is good for the whole of the country, full stop.

    I didn’t downvote you, by the way; I at least understand the rationale on a surface level.

    • bluGill@fedia.io
      45·
      1 month ago

      Citizens should be voting for politicians who do things. They for politicians who cleaned things up. Will you fire all those corrupt politicians in your town that didn’t clean things up? Remember those cities that did clean things up paid for the price on their own. I do not want to reward cities who vote to continue corruption.

      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        54·
        1 month ago

        You understand that lead poisoning most predominantly affects children, right? So even if your argument is that the minority of voting-age individuals who vote against these politicians should suffer the consequences of the majority who do (let alone that those majority deserve to have lead poisoning for voting in incompetent or corrupt politicians/living in a jurisdiction that can’t afford to rapidly replace these lines), you’re failing to acknowledge that the children who are most deeply affected here have no say whatsoever.