"The administration is trying to pull the wool over Americans' eyes, claiming that they care about our health, that they care about kids' health, when in reality, they are moving so aggressively to eliminate dozens of safeguards, said Cathleen Kelly, a senior fellow at CAP and report co-author. It's really been heartbreaking to watch."
"We have banked environmental win after environmental win, and under president Trump and administrator Zeldin, children and families are safer and healthier than ever, the person said."
The Health and Human Services department, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has pledged to transform food, fitness, air, water, soil and medicine and to reverse the childhood chronic disease crisis under the Make America Healthy Again agenda. The Environmental Protection Agency under administrator Lee Zeldin is dismantling dozens of environmental regulations, weakening pollution limits and exempting facilities from clean air standards. Those regulatory changes increase children's exposure to pollution and raise vulnerability to cancers, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, autism and attention deficit disorder. The EPA maintains that overturning wasteful policies protects the environment and public health, while critics warn that dismantling safeguards will deepen the childhood chronic disease crisis.
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