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Trump’s EPA promised to fill vacancies on its only committee protecting youth from pollution and toxic chemicals. Eight months later, seats remain empty. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin says appointments could come this month. But promises aren’t action, and science must guide the committee’s work. 🧵

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For nearly 30 Years, the EPA Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee has provided over 100 science-based recommendation letters to the agency prioritizing the safety of our nation’s kids. As the committee sits empty, it is unable to fulfill that mission.

blog.ucs.orgTo the Trump Administration, Children’s Health Is an Acceptable SacrificeOn Children's Environmental Health Day, here's a look at how the Trump administration isn't living up to its promises to protect children's health.

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More than 70 children’s environmental health experts and advocates, including the @ameracadpeds.bsky.social eds.bsky.social, recently called on EPA to restore the committee. Read more:

ucs.orgFormer EPA Children’s Health Advisers Call Out Trump Administration’s Unfulfilled Promise to Keep Kids SafeFormer members of the Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee are calling out the Trump administration for failing to fulfill its own commitment to engage experts in protecting children’s heal...
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To uphold its commitment to improving the health and safety of kids, EPA should stop sidelining science. It must appoint qualified, independent experts with relevant children’s environmental health expertise who are free from financial conflicts of interest to the CHPAC.