{"id":26685,"date":"2025-04-26T09:01:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T09:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26685"},"modified":"2025-04-26T09:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T09:25:08","slug":"for-trump-pfas-forever-chemicals-in-straws-are-a-crisis-in-water-maybe-less-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26685","title":{"rendered":"For Trump, PFAS \u2018Forever Chemicals’ in Straws Are a Crisis. In Water, Maybe Less So."},"content":{"rendered":"
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An administration document aimed at eradicating paper straws highlights the dangers of PFAS chemicals. Their presence in tap water nationwide hasn\u2019t gotten the same attention.<\/p>\n

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The 36-page official national strategy document bears the presidential seal and involves 10 agencies from across the federal government.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t the government\u2019s policy on tariffs or border security. It\u2019s President Trump\u2019s master plan to eradicate paper straws<\/a> and bring back plastic.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy Administration is committed,\u201d the document declares, to \u201cridding us of the pulpy, soggy mess that torments too many of our citizens whenever they drink through a paper straw.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a shot in the culture wars, critics say, and another example of the haphazard policies of an administration guided by Mr. Trump\u2019s whims and dislikes, whether for paper straws, wind turbines or low-flow shower heads.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But there\u2019s a twist: It complicates another, bigger public health question in the administration\u2019s drive to roll back regulations.<\/p>\n

In its attack on paper straws, the document devotes a robust eight pages to highlighting their health and environmental dangers. It points out, in particular, the dangers of PFAS, a class of thousands of synthetic chemicals that are used to make paper straws and other everyday products water-resistant but are also linked to serious health problems<\/a> and are turning up in tap water around the country.<\/p>\n

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An administration document aimed at eradicating paper straws highlights the dangers of PFAS chemicals. Their presence in tap water nationwide hasn\u2019t gotten the same attention.The 36-page official national strategy document bears the presidential seal and involves 10 agencies from across the federal government.It isn\u2019t the government\u2019s policy on tariffs or border security. It\u2019s President Trump\u2019s master plan to eradicate paper straws and bring back plastic.\u201cMy Administration is committed,\u201d the document declares, to \u201cridding us of the pulpy, soggy mess that torments too many of our citizens whenever they drink through a paper straw.\u201dIt\u2019s a shot in the culture wars, critics say, and another example of the haphazard policies of an administration guided by Mr. Trump\u2019s whims and dislikes, whether for paper straws, wind turbines or low-flow shower heads.But there\u2019s a twist: It complicates another, bigger public health question in the administration\u2019s drive to roll back regulations.In its attack on paper straws, the document devotes a robust eight pages to highlighting their health and environmental dangers. It points out, in particular, the dangers of PFAS, a class of thousands of synthetic chemicals that are used to make paper straws and other everyday products water-resistant but are also linked to serious health problems and are turning up in tap water around the country.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26687,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26688,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26685\/revisions\/26688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}