The LCRI is the latest in a series of updates to the original Lead and Copper Rule (LCR), first issued in 1991. While the initial LCR was designed to limit lead and copper levels in drinking water, ...

Under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Lead and Copper Rule Improvements (LCRI) announced on Oct. 8, 2024, EPA has shifted its focus from addressing lead exceedances in drinking water ...

WASHINGTON, DC, October 11, 2024 (ENS) – To reduce the poisonous contamination of lead in American drinking water, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday issued the long-awaited final Lead ...

OHIO COUNTY, W.Va. — A resident recently emailed NEWS9 saying that the Ohio County PSD failed to submit required samples for lead and copper testing from 2022 to 2024. Manager Rich Scott said they do ...

Aug. 26—Kalispell City Council is expected on Monday to review the municipality's compliance with federal rules governing the presence of lead and copper in the public water supply. The meeting is ...

Policy experts say Michigan is insulated from a Congressional effort to repeal recent federal requirements that expedite lead service pipe replacements thanks to a state rule which requires that all ...

In this July 20, 2018, file photo, workers back fill a hole used to replace lead pipe with copper water supply lines to a home in Flint, Mich. Credit: AP File Photo/Paul Sancya WASHINGTON (AP) — The ...

WAILUKU–The County of Maui Department of Water Supply (DWS) invites the community to a project update about its ongoing water pipe inventory to comply with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ...

Anaconda officials pushed EPA years ago to add lead to the agency’s ongoing focus on arsenic as a legacy “contaminant of concern” from 100 years of copper smelting. That campaign paid off. And EPA ...