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The Environmental Protection Agency distributed about $3 billion to states last year to replace harmful lead pipes based on unverified data, according to an agency inspector general's memo, likely ...

Greater Cincinnati Water Works has been urging customers with lead pipes to replace them for eight years. Now, it will redouble that effort, at the federal government’s direction. The utility next ...

Public water system customers across the region this month began receiving letters notifying them if their drinking water lines might contain lead or lead-absorbing materials, part of a state and ...

Lead pipes in public water systems and drinking fixtures have been banned in new construction since 1986, but they are still in use across the U.S. and in Illinois. The presence of lead pipes has ...