Last year, prominent activist Kelly Ryerson was so frustrated with the EPA … that she and other MAHA supporters drew up a petition to get [EPA leader, Lee Zeldin] fired.
The final straw, Ryerson said, was the EPA’s approval of two new pesticides for use on food. Ryerson, whose social media account “Glyphosate Girl” … has said the pesticides contained “forever chemicals” …. The EPA has disputed that characterization.
But Ryerson’s relationship with the EPA changed at a MAHA Christmas party…. She talked to Zeldin there …. Then he invited her and a handful of other activists to sit down with him at the EPA headquarters.
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[S]he praised MAHA’s access as “unprecedented.”
Zeldin’s office declined to make him available for an interview on his work with MAHA activists, but EPA Press Secretary Brigit Hirsch said the forthcoming agenda will “directly respond to priorities we’ve heard from MAHA advocates and communities.”
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Hirsch [also] said the agency consults with ethics officials to prevent conflicts of interest and ensures that appointees are qualified and focused on the science, “unlike previous administrations that too often deferred to activist groups instead of objective evidence.”
