Why the MAHA obsession with chemicals in food, but not the environment?

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone make it make sense? MAHA seems obsessed with *bad* chemicals such as synthetic dyes in food that we consume - i.e. what MORE and tighter regulation to supposedly keep us healthy.

Yet MAHA does not care one iota about deregulation at EPA which would lead to..... MORE bad chemicals (worse chemicals, frankly) in our food, drinking water, and air - whatever is used in the environment/farming leaches into our water and soil so often is present in foods (e.g. PFAs and microplastics for one, but there are others).

Why the direct contradiction in approaches to chemicals in general?

RFK is very supportive of environmental laws.

EPA regulations have been passed by zealots who are all about restricting development, and 31 major regulations are being reviewed.
CO2 is not pollution, so the endangerment finding should be overturned.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’ve been poisoned for decades. Robert Reich is a liar.

Robert Reich is not a liar.

We've been poisoned for decades but that's 100% because of industry. Dupont and others concealed and obfuscated data about their chemicals, products and their toxicity, and lobbied against regulation. The American Chemistry Council slowed EPA down with constant fights. PFAS spans over 4,000 chemicals which makes regulation difficult. EPA lacked any clear statutory authority to regulate PFAS under existing regulations and Congress didn't act because of industry lobbying.

So it drug on for decades. Finally, under Biden some action:
2021–2024: EPA launched its PFAS Strategic Roadmap, proposing rules under the Safe Drinking Water Act, CERCLA, and TSCA.
April 2024: EPA finalized drinking water standards for five PFAS compounds, setting enforceable limits as low as 4 parts per trillion.
May 2024: PFOA and PFOS were officially designated as hazardous substances under Superfund law, enabling cleanup enforcement
But now Trump is reversing all of that and is gutting the EPA.

Make America Poisoned Again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’ve been poisoned for decades. Robert Reich is a liar.

Robert Reich is not a liar.

We've been poisoned for decades but that's 100% because of industry. Dupont and others concealed and obfuscated data about their chemicals, products and their toxicity, and lobbied against regulation. The American Chemistry Council slowed EPA down with constant fights. PFAS spans over 4,000 chemicals which makes regulation difficult. EPA lacked any clear statutory authority to regulate PFAS under existing regulations and Congress didn't act because of industry lobbying.

So it drug on for decades. Finally, under Biden some action:
2021–2024: EPA launched its PFAS Strategic Roadmap, proposing rules under the Safe Drinking Water Act, CERCLA, and TSCA.
April 2024: EPA finalized drinking water standards for five PFAS compounds, setting enforceable limits as low as 4 parts per trillion.
May 2024: PFOA and PFOS were officially designated as hazardous substances under Superfund law, enabling cleanup enforcement
But now Trump is reversing all of that and is gutting the EPA.

Make America Poisoned Again.

But hey, we banned a red dye from skittles!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

"Overly burdensome"

Yeah right. This is exactly like the "burden" of summer camps for little girls being asked to not have their cabins in a known flood zone and to have flood gauges, sirens and warning systems. It wasn't some imaginary liberal bureaucratic red tape that was on that map, it was science and evidence based reality, just as it's science and evidence based reality that they want to ignore with pollution.

It's right wing "freedumb" ideologues caring only about profits and not caring about consequences, as if their beliefs can somehow override reality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

"Overly burdensome"

Yeah right. This is exactly like the "burden" of summer camps for little girls being asked to not have their cabins in a known flood zone and to have flood gauges, sirens and warning systems. It wasn't some imaginary liberal bureaucratic red tape that was on that map, it was science and evidence based reality, just as it's science and evidence based reality that they want to ignore with pollution.

It's right wing "freedumb" ideologues caring only about profits and not caring about consequences, as if their beliefs can somehow override reality.

It’s all about $$$$ and widening the income gap.

[Anonymous]

This is so infuriating.