"As president, Donald J. Trump slashed protections for clean air and water and weakened school nutrition standards."
"When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed Donald J. Trump last week, he recounted speaking with the former president about “the issues that bind us together,” including “having safe food and ending the chronic disease epidemic.”
Mr. Kennedy, a onetime environmental lawyer and longtime vaccine critic, insisted that a second Trump administration would lead to the elimination of pesticides and other hazardous chemicals in America’s food and water supply.
“We will make Americans healthy again,” Mr. Kennedy said.
“Don’t you want healthy children?” he asked. “And don’t you want the chemicals out of our food? And don’t you want the regulatory agencies to be free from corporate corruption? And that’s what President Trump told me that he wanted.”
As president, though, Mr. Trump ended more than 100 environmental policies, including bans on toxic chemicals known to pose serious health threats. He installed industry lobbyists in top jobs, where they took actions that helped the companies they once represented and worked to gut most federal health and safety agencies."
Lisa Friedman reports for the New York Times August 27, 2024.
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