RFK Jr. Can't Defend EPA Rollbacks On 'Forever Chemicals'
HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had no defense for the EPA's recent rollback of what are called "forever chemicals," during an interview with CNN's Kaitlan Collins, so he just lied about them instead. You know Kennedy knows better than this since he spent so much of his time as an environmental lawyer suing over this sort of issue, which makes his sellout to Trump even more egregious.
Here's the exchange between Kennedy and Collins where she asked him how he squares his supposed concern for children being exposed to dangerous chemicals with what Lee Zeldin is doing at the EPA:
COLLINS: Speaking of working with other agency heads, the EPA is also on your commission and as part of this, Lee Zeldin was there in the room. Your report says that kids are exposed to harmful environmental toxins and microplastics.
I wonder how you square that with some moves that we've seen the EPA take to roll back or to weaken rules that limit forever chemicals in drinking water, which obviously would be one of those issues.
KENNEDY: We're working very hard on PFAS. A lot of what you read about about EPA's regulations, rolling back regulations on PFAS is not true.
PFAS is something I've been working on for years.