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RFK Jr. needs to execute his plan
Los Angeles Times
|April 09, 2026
Re “Microplastics are everywhere, even in the research labs,” April 5
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THANKS to staff writer Susanne Rust for bringing readers’ attention to our plastics pollution epidemic and its impact on our planet.
In Rust's latest article, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is quoted as saying, “We cannot regulate what we don’t understand.”
This is absolute insanity given the urgency of this issue. It also directly contradicts his September 2023 post on X with his own 10-point plan “to fix the plastics pollution crisis,” which included banning fracking and limiting construction and expansion of plastic production facilities.
This story is from the April 09, 2026 edition of Los Angeles Times.
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