EPA Asks Court to Pause Lead Pipe Rule Challenge to Review Case

The Environmental Protection Agency moved Thursday to hold in abeyance a legal challenge to the Biden administration’s mandate for drinking water systems to remove lead pipes.

The EPA is asking the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to hold the case in abeyance for 60 days to give newly-confirmed EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and other Trump administration leadership time to review the mandate.

The American Water Works Association, a trade group, in December filed a petition for the appeals court to review the Biden administration’s Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) regulation, which requires drinking water ...