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To the extent that most cities already have programs to dig up and replace old goosenecks, most would probably support some additional federal enforcement.
Unfunded mandates are not going to be popular, no matter which political party does so. Reading the article, it appears that the federal government has provided about half of the EPA-estimated cost of replacing all these pipes. So that means either states paying for the rest or forcing customers (i.e., ordinary people and businesses) to cover the cost. Since the COVID-related tax income flush has trickled off, state budgets will be tight, so this will probably have to be funded with a tax increase or water bill increase (functionally the same as a tax).
You'll then understand that fixing things, currently or in the near future, it will be the current leadership that has much of the blame or applaud coming to them.
https://apnews.com/article/lead-epa-flint-discrimination-bid...
You are so blinded by jealousy that you missed the point on the prior comment.
Even if they did oppose, it would likely be on the grounds of the cost, which is worth it, but still a valid complaint.
This matters a lot at the moment because we need to significantly decarbonize our economy and the same people have been staunchly opposing that.
It's certainly not just about who gets credit. I mean, there's also the question of whether other people's children's health is worth saving if it's going to increase a utility bill. Or the looming spectre of tax dollars spent on making someone else's life better, rather than one's own life.
According to him, that stopped being even conceivable the day Obama was elected and people like Mitch McConnell made it very clear to everyone in the party that there were to be no deals of any sort which could give Obama any sort of accomplishment, not even things which had previously been generally uncontroversial. It was apparently quite frankly stated that anyone who did so would have the national party and the right-wing media machine targeting them during the next primary as if they were a Democrat, even if it was something like getting something like a highway project in their state. They knew how Bush had been able to campaign for re-election on things like “No Child Left Behind” and Medicare part D which had only passed with some Democratic votes and were determined not to allow that to happen in reverse, just as we're seeing now.