Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent much of his career as an environmental advocate, but whether he would support climate work as head of the Department of Health and Human Services is still an open question.
President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that Kennedy was his pick for secretary of HHS, just days after promising Kennedy could “go wild” on food and health policy in the administration. The anti-vaccine activist has already vowed to fire some 600 employees at the National Institutes of Health, which he has accused of colluding with big pharmaceutical companies and food producers.
“I look forward to working with the more than 80,000 employees at HHS to free the agencies from the smothering cloud of corporate captures so they can pursue their mission to make Americans once again the healthiest people on earth,” Kennedy wrote on X Thursday night.
What’s less clear is what Kennedy would do with multiple climate and environment programs housed within HHS.
