Trump’s EPA Chief Zeldin Is Shuttering The Agency’s Museum | EUROtoday

WASHINGTON (AP) — EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin says he’s closing a one-room museum on the company’s Washington headquarters, saving taxpayers $600,000 a 12 months in working prices.

Zeldin, who has vowed to slash company spending, stated in a video posted Monday that the museum value $4 million to construct and attracted fewer than 2,000 guests because it opened final 12 months.

The museum is “yet another example of waste by the Biden administration,” he stated, including that it’s overly centered on environmental justice and local weather change, two Biden administration priorities.

While admission is free, the museum’s working prices — coupled with low attendance — means it prices taxpayers about $315 per customer, Zeldin stated. “This shrine to EJ (environmental justice) and climate change will now be shut down for good,″ he said.

The video was filmed in the EPA museum, which features a pen used by President Lyndon Johnson to sign amendments to the Clean Air Act in 1967 and a first edition of “Silent Spring,″ Rachel Carson’s landmark book on the harm caused by the pesticide DDT. The 1963 book helped launch the environmental movement.

The museum also describes the agency’s founding in 1970 under President Richard Nixon, the creation of the Superfund program to clean up toxic waste, and the federal response to the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Zeldin said the museum “conveniently” omitted point out of President Donald Trump’s first time period and vowed to do his half to assist Americans “learn more about the amazing work of our agency to provide cleaner, healthier and safer land, air and water.”

That mission could be achieved “without paying more than half a million in tax dollars on a museum that is barely visited and designed to tell an ideologically slanted, partial story of the EPA,” Zeldin stated.

Information on the museum was eliminated Monday from the EPA’s web site.