Get the lead out

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🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The Biden administration wants all lead pipes ripped up. It’ll take billions of dollars and rarely seen cooperation among government agencies. We ask UC Berkeley’s David Sedlak and American University’s Karen Baehler whether the plan is a pipe dream. This episode was produced by Isabel Angell, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Anouck Dussaud, engineered by David Herman, and hosted by Noel King Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are more than 9 million lead pipes delivering water to homes in the United States.
0:06.2	It's not great.
0:07.4	We know that lead is bad for us and in fact the Biden White House has spent a lot of time talking about it.
0:13.0	Over the years, I have traveled around the country and I have met many parents to talk about
0:20.0	this very issue.
0:22.1	So many parents. Parents who were worried. this very parents,
0:24.0	parents who were worried
0:25.0	that every time they turned on the faucet
0:28.0	to get their child a glass of water
0:31.0	that they may be filling that glass with poison.
0:34.6	And then recently, Biden's EPA upped the ante in a big way.
0:38.2	Here's what it's proposing, that all of the lead pipes in this country be ripped up and replaced in the next 10 years.
0:45.2	It's ambitious, it'll be expensive, is it even possible?
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