EPA Launches Science Review Toward Revising Trump Lead Pipe Rule

The EPA kicked off a detailed scientific review Thursday of the ways in which lead exposure through drinking water can disproportionately affect disadvantaged populations, a key step toward its plan to propose a more stringent lead and copper drinking water rule next year.

The Environmental Protection Agency remains on target to publish its proposal in 2023 and issue final regulations by mid-October 2024, according to Michael Goldberg, an environmental engineer in the agency’s Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water.

The EPA is asking its independent Science Advisory Board to help it ensure that the revised regulations—which would update and ...