Kennedy and the MAHA movement's rise to power is disorienting for scientists and advocates in environmental health who are focused on human exposure to toxic chemicals and environmental pollutants.
"Unfortunately, right now, it looks like the polluters won," says Thomas Burke, the founder and emeritus director of the Johns Hopkins Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute and a former deputy assistant administrator of the EPA's Office of Research and Development.
EPA is going to be on the border with Mexico. There, for decades, has been raw sewage that's been traveling across the border, and Americans are very concerned with regards to beach closures...