The Rhetoric vs. the Reality It’s easy to weaponize policy shifts in a headline war. It’s harder to track the slow-drip of regulatory creep, where promises dissolve into exceptions and the public is left wondering if anything ever really changes. That’s what’s happening with pesticides—and it’s bigger than one administration, one party, or even one class of chemicals. This is about how deep the agrochemical lobby runs, and how comfortable our agencies have become approving risk as long as the paperwork looks clean. Campaign Promises Meet the Regulatory Machine Let’s strip away the partisan layers. Yes, the Trump-Kennedy campaign made big declarations about protecting Americans from harmful chemicals. Yes, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was put in charge of the Health…
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