GOP Lawmakers Warn MAHA Panel Of ‘Malicious’ Environmentalist Influence

April 16, 2025
Dozens of congressional Republicans are urging EPA and other agencies involved in health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) commission to ignore requests by environmentalists for the group to target toxic pesticides, one of Kennedy’s longstanding concerns. The April 11 letter , signed by 15 senators and 64 House members, urges EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Kennedy to “safeguard” the MAHA commission “from activist groups promoting misguided and sometimes even malicious policies...


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