EPA Approves Four New Pesticides That Qualify as PFAS

https://civileats.com/2025/09/08/epa...alify-as-pfas/

Despite MAHA promises to reduce chemical exposures, experts warn the Trump administration is approving a wave of ‘frightening’ pesticides.

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September 8, 2025

In April, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went to Texas to tour farms and agriculture research facilities and learn “how America’s farmers are working to Make America Healthy Again,” according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) press release.

During a press conference at Sawyer Farms, a local news reporter told the duo that Texas ranchers are worried about “forever chemical” contamination caused by biosolids used for fertilizer and asked what the Trump administration was doing about it. Because they do not break down, the chemicals accumulate in the environment and can cause serious health harms.

Both Rollins and Kennedy said they were concerned about farm soils being contaminated with the chemicals, called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS—commonly referred to as forever chemicals. “We want to end the production of PFAS,” Kennedy said. “Ultimately, I think that’s what we have to do. There’s a lot of pressure on the industry now to stop using it.”