The civil complaint, filed Thursday in Franklin County Common Pleas Court, asks a judge to make the companies tied to the lead in city water service lines help reimburse Columbus for removing and ...

Jeffrey Bell watched as crews dug up and replaced neighbors’ lead water pipes, hoping his mother’s house would be next. Workers told him it wasn’t on their list but probably assigned to another ...

Lawmakers and advocates gathered at the New York State Capitol Wednesday to call for the passage of legislation that would create a plan to replace lead pipes contaminating drinking water throughout ...

FLINT, Mich. — Jeffrey Bell watched as crews dug up and replaced neighbors’ lead water pipes, hoping his mother’s house would be next. Workers told him it wasn’t on their list but probably assigned to ...

Syracuse, NY – Syracuse fell far short of its promise to remove 3,000 dangerous lead water pipes this year. Instead, it replaced only 700 of the lines that bring drinking water into homes. That ...

Millions of dollars in federal and Chicago city loans dedicated to replacing lead pipes that pump water into people’s homes remain unused, a city official said Monday, at the same time officials are ...

More than 11,000 houses in Nassau County and a handful in Suffolk draw their drinking water through old lead service lines, and at least 100,000 more have pipes whose material is unknown but could ...

Minnesota aims to replace all lead water pipes by 2033, but funding is to run out by 2027, jeopardizing the effort.

Waukegan is finding it increasingly challenging to find the mostly older houses with lead pipes in need of changing, as the city’s replacement program plans to double the number of homes with copper ...

Editor’s note: Students at SUNY Upstate Medical University are learning more than how to be doctors, researchers and public health experts. They also are acquiring skills to advocate for their ...

Rockford Public Works plans to triple its lead replacement program to meet the cutoff.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Workers back fill a hole used to replace lead pipe with copper water supply lines to a home in Flint, Mich., July 20, 2018.