EPA Lead Proposal Wouldn’t Mandate Full Pipe Replacement (2)

The EPA’s long-awaited proposal to overhaul how it regulates lead in drinking water won’t force water utilities to replace all of their lead pipes—a disappointment for environmental and other activist groups who have been waiting for decades for this overhaul.

The proposal would ratchet up current rules on lead pipe replacement rather than require a full ban on the use of these pipes.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler unveiled the new water regulations at an Oct. 10 event in Green Bay, Wis. This is the first time new nationwide lead regulations are being introduced in nearly 30 years.

“Administration ...