Trump’s environmental rollbacks contradict RFK’s healthy America promise, report finds

Dismantling rules will make children vulnerable to chronic diseases ‘make America healthy again’ wants to eradicate

Donald Trump’s aggressive rollback of environmental protections directly contradicts the promises of his “make America healthy again” campaign, according to new research.

Helmed by Robert F Kennedy Jr, Trump’s health and human services department has touted pledges to “transform our nation’s food, fitness, air, water, soil and medicine” and “reverse the childhood chronic disease crisis”. But the president’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is pushing the country in the opposite direction, says the new report from the liberal research and advocacy non-profit Center for American Progress (CAP).

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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