Lead Drinking-Water Pipes Must Be Replaced Nationwide, E.P.A. Says |The “historic” rule aims to eliminate a major source of lead poisoning and comes a decade after a drinking-water crisis in Flint
If the Supreme Court lets it stand. Reminder: executive agencies don’t have deference to independently interpret laws like the Clean Drinking Water Act anymore, so this new rule will stand until someone decides to challenge it, and until a court decides they’d rather continue poisoning future generations instead of allowing the experts to do their jobs, which is something SCOTUS would apparently prefer.
Literally EVERY red state will sue to keep those pipes.
I mean, obviously not all of them, the rich neighborhoods will have their shit fixed quick, but damned if Tennessee will spend good money to fix pipes going to those people.
I assume the rich neighborhoods will have already have had their pipes replaced, in which case it would only be those people who are affected. Not that I have anything to back that suspicion up.