Trump administration actions contradict MAHA rhetoric on toxic chemicals

By Will Stone | NPR | June 18, 2025

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“It was a surreal moment for Susanne Brander.

She was sitting in the audience at a conference in April as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke about the health effects of exposure to harmful chemicals in our food, air and water.

As she listened, Kennedy cited recent research on microplastics from researchers in Oregon, finding these tiny particles had shown up in 99% of the seafood they sampled.

‘It was definitely our study,’ says Brander, an ecotoxicologist at Oregon State University who co-authored the research along with a team at Portland State University.” …

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