Former EPA officials are sounding the alarm again about Project 2025’s conservative vision for the agency, this time with a focus on plans to stop or delay efforts to control and tackle pollution from “forever chemicals.”
Scientists, political appointees and longtime regulators who worked at the agency will be writing a series of articles in the coming weeks about the Heritage Foundation-led plan. The articles are being led by the Environmental Protection Network, a group of more than 650 former EPA officials who worked under Democratic and Republican administrations.
The latest critical piece, released Tuesday, follows another report geared to air quality concerns.
“If Project 2025 recommendations for EPA are implemented, the agency will lose almost all of its ability to protect people and the environment from PFAS contamination,” Betsy Southerland, a retired 30-year employee of EPA who led the agency’s science and technology efforts in the Office of Water, wrote in the new piece.
