{"id":37999,"date":"2025-04-05T15:42:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/trump-officials-quietly-move-to-reverse-bans-on-toxic-forever-chemicals\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:42:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:42:49","slug":"trump-officials-quietly-move-to-reverse-bans-on-toxic-forever-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/trump-officials-quietly-move-to-reverse-bans-on-toxic-forever-chemicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump officials quietly move to reverse bans on toxic \u2018forever chemicals\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EPA bids to change chemical risk evaluations, which could expose public to higher levels of PFAS and other pollutants<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration is quietly carrying out a plan that aims to kill hundreds of bans on highly toxic PFAS \u201cforever chemicals\u201d and other dangerous compounds in consumer goods.<\/p>\n<p>The bans, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saferstates.org\/bill-tracker\/?\">largely at the state level<\/a>, touch most facets of daily life, prohibiting everything from bisphenol in <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1266\">children\u2019s products<\/a> to mercury in <a href=\"https:\/\/nyassembly.gov\/leg\/?bn=A619&amp;term=2023\">personal care products<\/a> to PFAS in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitol.hawaii.gov\/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=HB&amp;billnumber=1644&amp;year=2022\">food packaging<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/bills\/hb22-1345\">clothing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/apr\/05\/trump-pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EPA bids to change chemical risk evaluations, which could expose public to higher levels of PFAS and other pollutants The Trump administration is quietly carrying out a plan that aims to kill hundreds of bans on highly toxic PFAS \u201cforever chemicals\u201d and other dangerous compounds in consumer goods. The bans, largely at the state level, &#8230; <a title=\"Trump officials quietly move to reverse bans on toxic \u2018forever chemicals\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/trump-officials-quietly-move-to-reverse-bans-on-toxic-forever-chemicals\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump officials quietly move to reverse bans on toxic \u2018forever chemicals\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}