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| Zeldin shutters multimillion-dollar Biden EPA museum that 'scarcely' saw visitors |
| 2025-04-01 |
| [FoxNews] "It's interactive where you can blow up the Gold King mine and flood the Animas River watershed with toxic waste! Fun for the whole family!" 'The scarcely visited museum cost a whopping $4 million taxpayer dollars to build,' according to Zeldin's EPA Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is shuttering the Biden-era EPA museum located near the White House that "scarcely" saw visitors since it opened in 2024, Fox News Digital learned. Zeldin announced Monday afternoon that the National Environmental Museum and Education Center, which opened last year under the Biden administration, will shutter after costing taxpayers millions to build and subsequently drew a lackluster number of visitors. "The scarcely visited museum cost a whopping $4 million taxpayer dollars to build in accordance with Smithsonian standards and more than $600,000 annually to operate," the EPA said of the museum in Monday comment provided to Fox News Digital, describing the museum as the "Biden EPA’s pet project." "It had less than 2,000 external visitors between May 2024-February 2025 and while the museum was free, the cost to taxpayers per external visitor amounted to nearly $315 per person." The EPA museum opened in May 2024 within the William Jefferson Clinton federal building, which is home to the EPA's headquarters and sits just blocks from the White House. A smaller EPA exhibit previously was showcased in a neighboring federal building ahead of the construction and opening of the National Environmental Museum and Education Center in 2024. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #2 There's a metaphor here about a non-operational president and non-operational museum. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2025-04-01 12:13 |
| #1 A true EPA ‘museum’ would be a map of all the businesses that EPA regulations caused to close. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2025-04-01 06:55 |