{"id":10358,"date":"2021-06-10T09:21:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T14:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/?p=10358"},"modified":"2025-12-03T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:09:00","slug":"momentum-is-building-to-fund-lead-pipe-replacement-across-the-country-new-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/2021\/06\/10\/momentum-is-building-to-fund-lead-pipe-replacement-across-the-country-new-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Momentum is building to fund lead pipe replacement across the country: New video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joanna Slaney<\/a>, Legislative Director and Sam Lovell<\/a>, Communications Manager.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

As Congress pursues infrastructure legislation, it\u2019s clear that replacing lead pipes is a priority issue. This is welcome news for our health, the country\u2019s infrastructure, and the economy. We are glad to see the attention on this issue from Congress and from the Administration with the inclusion of funding to fully replace lead pipes in the President’s American Jobs Plan<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

And it\u2019s no wonder there is growing interest in this initiative, the latest polling<\/a><\/span>\u00a0from the Navigator shows support for funding lead pipe replacement at 83% nationally – including 73% of Republicans, 80% of Independents, and 91% of Democrats. <\/span>This echoes earlier polls<\/a><\/span> which have found similar overwhelming bipartisan support<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As EDF has written before<\/a>, <\/span>a $45 billion investment in lead pipe replacement over ten years would:<\/span><\/p>\n