The Montana Legislature designated $3.7 million this spring to remove lead from school drinking-water supplies. Then the state received $565,000 more on Aug. 1 from the $50 billion federal infrastructure package aimed at improving water systems nationally. But even with those two new pools of money intended to last two years, the state’s schools may struggle to remove all but the most dangerous sources of lead.
Author Archives: Keely Larson, KFF Health News
Keely Larson is the KFF fellow for the UM Legislative News Service, a partnership of the University of Montana School of Journalism, the Montana Newspaper Association, and Kaiser Health News. Larson is a graduate student in environmental and natural resources journalism at the University of Montana.
