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Over 7,000 petitioners urge removal of EPA chief Lee Zeldin after approval of pesticides linked to toxic PFAS chemicals, raising public health and infertility concerns.
- Supporters of US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are in open revolt over the Environmental Protection Agency's approvals of isocycloseram and cyclobutrifluram, which critics classify as PFAS-like substances.
- The EPA's 2021 PFAS definition under then-president Joe Biden conflicts with those of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and independent academic institutions, while chemists say the compounds break down into trifluoroacetic acid .
- MAHA launched a pressure campaign including an online petition with more than 7,000 signatures, and Kelly Ryerson, co-founder of American Regeneration, met Lee Zeldin Tuesday.
- Ryerson said she found it incredibly disappointing that Trump's EPA appointed two former chemical-industry lobbyists to key roles, while Lee Zeldin argued molecules with a single fluorine-carbon bond are not `forever chemicals`.
- Supporters and MAHA, praised a Kennedy-appointed panel's newborn hepatitis B shot recommendation, highlighting how the issue is now up for grabs politically.
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Kennedy's health movement turns on Trump administration over pesticides
Yes to rethinking childhood vaccines, but no to more chemicals in agriculture: supporters of US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are in open revolt over the Trump administration's approval of new, highly persistent pesticides.
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