Chicago leads the nation in lead pipes that provide drinking water some 400,000 but new rules from the EPA won't apply in the same way as it will for most of the U.S.
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Chicago, the epicenter of brain-damaging lead hazards in the United States, is borrowing $336 million from the federal government to replace thousands of water pipes made of the toxic metal. The low-interest loan announced Friday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency comes after decades of denials from city officials that Chicago suffers a widespread lead-in-water problem. Money provided .