Iyana Simba: “One-eighth of all the lead service lines in the nation are here in Illinois. So we have about 667,000 that are accounted for. And that’s in addition to hundreds of thousands that are unknown material. Um, that puts about 350,000 children at risk of lead exposure today in Illinois.” (0:42-1:01)
“We cannot delay each each each year that we’re delaying this. It’s another generation that’s being impacted by this.” (2:01-2:06)
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