environmental policy

While in Congress, he did not serve on committees with oversight of environmental policy.

Now, as Trump prepares to return to the White House, state officials and environmental groups are bracing for the same sweeping environmental policy changes that characterized his first administration, as well as others that have been proposed more recently by former Trump aides and allies.

But the 2025 manifesto instructs the agency to focus on thinning trees and increasing timber sale, in part by reducing “regulatory obstacles” put in place by the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act.

Trump said he disagrees with Kennedy on environmental policy so would instead ask the vaccine critic to "focus on health, do whatever you want".

Southerland, who today along with other former EPA staff advocates for progressive environmental policy for the Environmental Protection Network, fears that changes to those policies would erode years’ worth of efforts to protect the public from PFAS.