MAHA activists step up demands on Zeldin

By Ellie Borst | 03/31/2026 01:08 PM EDT

A group of Make America Healthy Again advocates listed the eight action items they want to see in EPA’s imminent MAHA agenda.

Lee Zeldin speaks during a Make America Healthy Again Commission meeting.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin speaks during a Make America Healthy Again Commission meeting at the Department of Health and Human Services on Sept. 9, 2025. Francis Chung/POLITICO

More than three dozen Make America Healthy Again leaders are again turning up the heat on EPA ahead of the agency’s release of a MAHA agenda.

A letter sent to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on Tuesday lays out publicly for the first time what advocates have been asking for during closed-door meetings over the past few months.

The report lists eight demands for the agency’s forthcoming MAHA agenda, centering on pesticides, PFAS (aka “forever chemicals”) and plastics, as well as the “profound contradiction” between the Trump administration’s MAHA commitments and “the chemical industry lobbyists who occupy senior leadership positions at the agency.”

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“The EPA must choose whether it will uphold a chemical status quo or honor the promise to make this country healthy again,” the letter states. “The public is watching. Families are organizing. Scientists are sounding the alarm. This movement will no longer accept empty rhetoric without real results.”

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