{"id":21089,"date":"2025-04-26T10:30:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T10:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/for-trump-pfas-forever-chemicals-in-straws-are-a-crisis-in-water-maybe-less-so\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T10:30:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T10:30:28","slug":"for-trump-pfas-forever-chemicals-in-straws-are-a-crisis-in-water-maybe-less-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/for-trump-pfas-forever-chemicals-in-straws-are-a-crisis-in-water-maybe-less-so\/","title":{"rendered":"For Trump, PFAS \u2018Forever Chemicals&#8217; in Straws Are a Crisis. In Water, Maybe Less So."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The 36-page official national strategy document bears the presidential seal and involves 10 agencies from across the federal government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It isn\u2019t the government\u2019s policy on tariffs or border security. It\u2019s President Trump\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/National-Strategy-to-End-the-Forced-Use-of-Paper-Straws.4.10.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">master plan to eradicate paper straws<\/a> and bring back plastic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMy Administration is committed,\u201d the document declares, to \u201cridding us of the pulpy, soggy mess that torments too many of our citizens whenever they drink through a paper straw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It\u2019s a shot in the culture wars, critics say, and another example of the haphazard policies of an administration guided by Mr. Trump\u2019s whims and dislikes, whether for paper straws, wind turbines or low-flow shower heads.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But there\u2019s a twist: It complicates another, bigger public health question in the administration\u2019s drive to roll back regulations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In its attack on paper straws, the document devotes a robust eight pages to highlighting their health and environmental dangers. It points out, in particular, the dangers of PFAS, a class of thousands of synthetic chemicals that are used to make paper straws and other everyday products water-resistant but are also <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/10\/climate\/six-things-to-know-about-forever-chemicals.html\" title=\"\">linked to serious health problems<\/a> and are turning up in tap water around the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Biden administration <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/10\/climate\/epa-pfas-drinking-water.html\" title=\"\">set strict new federal standards last year<\/a> that tightened restrictions on PFAS, also known as \u201cforever chemicals\u201d because they don\u2019t break down easily in the environment. But industry and utility groups sued, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/documents.nam.org\/regs\/NAM_Executive_Order_14219_Regulatory_Recommendations_04-17-25.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">calling the standards \u201cunattainable\u201d and \u201conerous,\u201d<\/a> and have urged the Trump administration to roll them back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It\u2019s unclear whether Lee Zeldin, who leads Environmental Protection Agency, will oblige. The administration faces a May 12 deadline to decide whether to continue to defend the standards in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIs Zeldin going to roll back PFAS drinking water standards when there\u2019s this anti-PFAS screed out of the White House?\u201d said Matthew Tejada, who leads environmental health policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council. \u201cIf the White House is concerned about PFAS in straws, then can Zeldin pretend there\u2019s no problem with PFAS in drinking water?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Under Mr. Zeldin, the agency has embarked on a deregulatory push, targeting for repeal <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/12\/climate\/epa-zeldin-rollbacks-pollution.html\" title=\"\">dozens of environmental regulations<\/a> that limit toxic pollution. And he has filled the agency\u2019s leadership ranks with lobbyists and lawyers from industries that have opposed environmental regulations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At a news briefing with reporters on Monday, Mr. Zeldin said that the science on PFAS \u201cwas not declared as settled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019ve figured out some of the questions related to PFAS, but the research is important to continue,\u201d Mr. Zeldin said. And regulations needed to be based on \u201cless assumptions and more facts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Yet Mr. Trump\u2019s anti-paper-straw strategy document is more explicit about the chemicals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cScientists and regulators have had substantial concerns about PFAS chemicals for decades,\u201d the White House paper says. \u201cPFAS are harmful to human health, and they have been linked to harms affecting reproductive health, developmental delays in children, cancer, hormone imbalance, obesity, and other dangerous health conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This week, the White House repeated those warnings. \u201cPaper straws contain dangerous PFAS chemicals \u2014 \u2018forever chemicals\u2019 linked to significant long-term health conditions \u2014 that infiltrate the water supply,\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/articles\/2025\/04\/on-earth-day-we-finally-have-a-president-who-follows-science\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the administration said on Monday<\/a> in an Earth Day statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Another wild card is the secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Addressing a forum on the health and the environmental effects of plastics on Wednesday, Mr. Kennedy listed PFAS among the chemicals he hoped to eliminate from the food system. \u201cWe\u2019re going to get rid of whole categories of chemicals in our food that we have good reason to believe are harmful to human health,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Both the White House and the E.P.A. said there was no gap between their approaches to PFAS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cPresident Trump and Administrator Zeldin are working lock-step to remove harmful toxins from the environment,\u201d Taylor Rogers, a White House spokeswoman, said. \u201cThe Trump administration, including Administrator Zeldin, has made it clear that PFAS are harmful to human health and further research on the danger of PFAS is critical to ensure we are making America healthy again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Molly Vaseliou, a spokeswoman for the E.P.A., declined to comment specifically on whether the agency would seek to roll back PFAS drinking water standards, but she pointed to Mr. Zeldin\u2019s long experience with PFAS issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Before joining the Trump administration, Mr. Zeldin served four terms as a congressman from Long Island, which has struggled with PFAS contamination. In 2020, he was one of 23 House Republicans who voted to pass the PFAS Action Act, a sweeping bill championed by Democrats that required the Environmental Protection Agency to limit the chemicals in drinking water and hold polluters responsible for cleanups.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe was, and remains, a staunch advocate for protecting Long Islanders and all Americans from contaminated drinking water,\u201d Ms. Vaseliou said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Zeldin is correct that more research is needed to pin down the health effects of exposure to PFAS. Still, the evidence of the chemicals\u2019 harm is mounting, especially for the most-studied kinds of PFAS. The White House strategy on straws lists that evidence, backed up by a seven-page bibliography.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe E.P.A. conducted an analysis of current peer-reviewed scientific studies and found that PFAS exposure is linked to concerning health risks,\u201d the document says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They also include, according to the White House: decreased fertility, high blood pressure in pregnant women, low birth weight, accelerated puberty, behavioral changes in children, diminished immune systems and increased cholesterol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Plastic <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.endocrine.org\/-\/media\/endocrine\/files\/topics\/2020-dec-7-harmful-chemicals-backgrounder.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">also contains harmful chemicals<\/a>. Microplastics are everywhere, polluting ecosystems and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/08\/well\/microplastics-health.html\" title=\"\">potentially harming human health<\/a>. And critics point to how promoting plastic helps the fossil fuel industry, which produces the building blocks of plastic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Still, Linda Birnbaum, a toxicologist and a former director of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences who has been sounding the alarm on PFAS for decades, agreed with aspects of the White House document. \u201cTheir statements of all these adverse effects are well founded,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But if the Trump administration was concerned about the health effects of PFAS, they should be concerned about the chemicals\u2019 presence all around us, she said, in food and food packaging, for example, and in drinking water. \u201cInstead they\u2019re spending all this effort trying to rally people around straws,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The debate over plastic straws reaches back to the mid-2010s, when they suddenly became a pariah for their role in an exploding plastic waste crisis. Some cities and retailers banned plastic straws, and a few states imposed restrictions. (Disability rights groups have expressed concerns about the bans, noting that some people need straws to drink safely.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Alternatives to plastic proliferated: stainless steel or glass straws, as well as lids with spouts. But paper straws quickly became the main replacement. And, just as quickly, they were derided for their tendency to disintegrate into a mushy mess.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Around the same time, scientists started detecting PFAS in a variety of paper and plant-based straws, raising concerns that they were exposing people to harmful chemicals and that they were becoming yet another source of water pollution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The president has portrayed the Biden-era measures as \u201ca paper straws mandate,\u201d though those plans didn\u2019t specifically require a switch to paper straws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His disdain for paper straws goes back years. His campaign for the 2020 election sold packs of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/22\/us\/politics\/on-politics-with-lisa-lerer-bent-out-of-shape.html\" title=\"\">10 branded plastic straws for $15<\/a> with the tagline, \u201cLiberal Paper Straws Don\u2019t Work.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In his grand strategy, Mr. Trump orders federal agencies to \u201cbe creative and use every available policy lever to end the use of paper straws nationwide.\u201d Moreover, \u201ctaxpayer dollars should never be wasted, so no federal contracts or grants should fund paper straws or support any entities that ban plastic straws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Christine Figgener, a marine conservation biologist (who, a decade ago, posted a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d2J2qdOrW44&amp;ab_channel=TheLeatherbackTrust\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">viral video of a sea turtle<\/a> with a plastic straw stuck in one of its nostrils), said pitting paper against plastic ignored the easiest solution of all: Avoid straws.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Straws have become \u201cthe symbol of everything that\u2019s unnecessary that we use in a society so dictated by convenience,\u201d she said. \u201cWhy is America so obsessed with straws? Most people don\u2019t need them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Lisa Friedman<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/26\/climate\/trump-straws-pfas-water-forever-chemicals.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 36-page official national strategy document bears the presidential seal and involves 10 agencies from across the federal government. 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