EPA’s Proposed Lead Strategy Aims to Reduce Toxic Lead Exposure Across the
U.S.

The EPA is preparing a draft strategy to address the lead exposure crisis
that is harming communities and contaminating our water supplies. It's a
multi-approach plan that can finally get lead out of our drinking water
and they're accepting public comments on the proposal — but time is
running out.

Submit an official public comment in support of this strategy before the
March 16 deadline!

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Dear NRDC Activist,

It's time to get lead out of our drinking water. There is no safe level of
lead exposure, and babies and young children are particularly vulnerable
to the serious and irreversible damage to developing brains and nervous
systems. However one NRDC analysis found that 56 percent of the U.S.
population — communities in every state — are consuming water from
drinking water systems detecting concerning amounts of lead.

And communities of color and low-income communities are disproportionately
impacted by drinking water violations and lead contamination that are too
often ignored or unaddressed.

But there is hope: Along with President Biden's historic bipartisan
infrastructure law which is sending $15 billion to states to remove lead
service lines, the EPA has released a draft strategy to reduce lead
exposure in U.S. communities, strengthen protections, and address a legacy
of environmental injustice against communities with the greatest
exposures. It's crucial that EPA's strategy protect children and families
from the scourge of lead from our drinking water systems!

[ [link removed] ]The
EPA has opened up public comments on how to protect communities from the
dangers of lead-contaminated water, but only until March 16. Submit your
official public comment in support of this strategy and help secure safe,
lead-free drinking water for ALL!

Industry groups are opposing strong EPA rules that would crack down on
lead contamination in tap water, arguing that it will cost too much to
comply. We must do all we can to put an end to the lead-contaminated water
crisis, so make sure you submit your comment before the March 16 deadline.

As a mom, I want to make sure my children have a bright and healthy
future. I never want to worry if there is lead in the water I'm putting in
my toddler's sippy cup. That's why I support the EPA's goals to reduce
lead exposure and protect children's health. And to achieve that goal, the
EPA has announced three clear approaches:

✔    Reduce lead exposures locally: With a focus on addressing
environmental injustice and public health disparities, the EPA will work
with partners to identify communities where lead exposure and blood lead
levels are known to be the highest. [ [link removed] ]Submit a public comment in support
of the draft strategy.

✔    Reduce lead exposures nationally: Through protective standards,
tools, and outreach, the EPA will prevent and reduce lead exposures by
developing and implementing critical new national standards, policies, and
guidance, and enforcing existing regulations. [ [link removed] ]Help keep communities
safe from lead exposure.

✔    Reduce lead exposure with a "whole of government" approach: The
agency will collaborate across EPA programs and with federal partners and
other governmental stakeholders — including states, tribes, cities, and
counties — to focus the full range of resources to reduce lead exposures
from all sources in the most impacted communities. [ [link removed] ]Submit your comment
now.

These three approaches — and the actions and the funding that the EPA will
need to achieve them — are critical if we're going to finally rid this
country of rampant lead exposure, get lead out of our drinking water
systems, and ensure that all people in the U.S. have access to safe
drinking water. But it will be up to us to make that vision a reality for
your family and mine:

[ [link removed] ]Please
be a part of this fight to secure a future free from lead contamination by
submitting your public comment in support of this lead strategy by March
16.

Thank you for standing with us at this critical moment to help end the
toxic legacy of lead.

Onward,

Angela Guyadeen
Director, Safe Water Initiative, NRDC

Docket ID: EPA-HQ-OLEM-2021-0762 until March 16, 2022.

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