Caroline Fraser
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I mean, they always say the dose makes the poison.
And I suppose that that's true.
And the government is not, you know, completely blameless in all of this either because, you know, in terms of lead, for example, one of the places that I think people are really concerned about is the schools, you know, public schools.
Public school buildings were built, you know, often decades ago.
So they're old and they have old โ
They have lead pipes.
And so there's, you know, there are real questions about how much the government is going to be on the hook for replacing all of this stuff that has to happen, which is, you know, so much money in order to do that.
They have occasionally kind of tiptoed up to this.
I think the Biden administration did say that they were going to spend millions of dollars to try and do work at schools.
Now, I think that's all in question.
So, yeah, it's a kind of a frightening period right now because the EPA is being defunded in a lot of ways.
I'm sure the EPA is not a perfect agency.
I'm sure they've made mistakes, but they're the ones.
And it's the EPA that's responsible for the Superfund program, which is in large part responsible for cleaning this stuff up.