Tens of billions of dollars for U.S. environmental-justice initiatives originally proposed in a $3.5 trillion domestic spending package now hang in the balance as Democrats decide how to trim the bill down to $2 trillion.

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The city of Racine had just under 11,000 lead pipe service lines delivering water to its nearly 80,000 residents in July, when the city announced it had received a $1.6 million grant through the state's Safe Drinking Water Loans program.

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In 2016, then-President Barack Obama declared a federal emergency in Flint, Michigan after a botched drinking water switch tainted the city’s water supply and spiked lead-poisoning rates among children.

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Laying out his plans for the 2022 city budget, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett called for completing the years-long city hall renovation project while also reducing total spending on capital projects slightly in 2022. 

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Sitting in his North Side Milwaukee rental house, Nazir Al-Mujaahid discussed his son Shu’aib’s challenges while the quiet 9-year-old lingered in another room. Shu’aib excels at sports, Al-Mujaahid said, but his speaking skills developed late, and he lags behind his 6-year-old brother in reading.

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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday proposed spending $200 million in federal pandemic relief funding to replace lead pipes throughout Michigan, where underground infrastructure was exposed by Flint's disaster.

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Included in the bipartisan infrastructure deal reached with President Joe Biden last week is a plan to eliminate the country's remaining lead pipes and service lines, which for decades have posed a risk for contaminated water in millions of homes and schools.

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Two years after leaving office, former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is being charged with willful neglect of duty in the Flint water crisis as prosecutors revisit how the city's water system was contaminated with lead during one of worst manmade environmental disasters in U.S. history.

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Flint has taken important steps toward eliminating lead contamination that made the impoverished Michigan city a symbol of the drinking water problems that plague many U.S. cities, officials said Monday.

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The Green Bay Water Utility on Tuesday removed its last lead pipe in the city, closing a chapter in a years-long endeavor to improve water quality for residents.

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