{"id":529704,"date":"2026-04-14T04:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/529704\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T04:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:03:07","slug":"in-sign-of-mahas-influence-epa-is-holding-up-forever-chemical-approvals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/529704\/","title":{"rendered":"In sign of MAHA\u2019s influence, EPA is holding up forever chemical approvals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"YFDJNCPETH0WQ0Q4M1MFM8Z7EG\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Environmental Protection Agency is sitting on dozens of approvals for uses of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2025\/08\/01\/pfas-forever-chemicals-states\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cforever chemicals\u201d<\/a> at the direction of Administrator Lee Zeldin, over fears that it could anger Make America Healthy Again activists, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Environmental Protection Agency is sitting on dozens of approvals for uses of \u201cforever chemicals\u201d at the direction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-529704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}