EPA drops plans to release a MAHA agenda

By Ellie Borst | 07/01/2026 01:26 PM EDT

Administrator Lee Zeldin said the agency’s Make America Healthy Again plan would have been “a recap of” what is already in action.

Lee Zeldin (left) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lean their heads together

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin (left) and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. participate in a roundtable discussion at EPA headquarters in Washington on May 18. Heather Diehl/AFP via Getty Images

EPA has effectively killed its Make America Healthy Again agenda.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin for months has been teasing the release of a MAHA agenda, a plan meant to balance the agency’s pro-business agenda with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-corporate health movement.

“If we were to put out a press release today on our MAHA accomplishments of the last six months, you would see our MAHA agenda in implementation, in execution, but that’s not the end of it,” Zeldin said when asked if the agency still plans to publish a MAHA agenda at a press event at EPA headquarters Tuesday afternoon. “You’d be seeing a recap of that MAHA agenda in action.”

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Zeldin first announced plans for the agenda in December, just days after meeting with MAHA activists who had petitioned for his removal. By March, Zeldin said “the text is basically drafted” and was going through interagency review.

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