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After months of dismal attendance and growing criticism, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, appointed under President Trump, shut down the costly project. The numbers spoke for themselves—despite being free to enter, fewer than 2,000 people had visited the museum since its opening.
“I’m currently standing inside of this museum, which was built and curated by the Biden administration with $4 million in taxpayer dollars,” Zeldin announced. “As if this wasn’t enough of a price tag, to fill a room the size of an apartment, this shrine to environmental justice and climate change costs the American taxpayer $600,000 to operate annually.”
When broken down, the costs were staggering. Each visitor effectively cost taxpayers $315. Zeldin exposed the wasteful spending, listing $123,000 on cleaning services, $207,000 for security, $54,000 on maintenance, and another $54,000 for storage. In the end, American taxpayers were footing the bill for a climate change indoctrination center that barely anyone attended.
Zeldin didn’t hold back in his criticism, calling the museum “Biden’s pet project” and pointing out that it was less about education and more about promoting a political agenda. The exhibits showered praise on Democrats while pushing a leftist narrative on climate policy.
Rod Law, communications director for the Functional Government Institute, applauded Zeldin for shutting it down. “There is something ironic about the EPA wasting money on a museum about itself when it is supposed to be focused on toxic waste,” Law remarked. “Sadly, promoting special interest climate activism and growing the out-of-touch bureaucracy were hallmarks of the EPA in the Biden administration, and this museum was an unfortunate result of such policy.”
Law further stated, “Administrator Zeldin closing it protects taxpayers, helps return the EPA to its statutory mission of protecting the environment, and abandons past dysfunction and bureaucratic self-promotion.”
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During his tenure, Biden funneled over $1 trillion into climate change and green energy initiatives. However, the Trump administration is now aggressively cutting wasteful spending. Zeldin has been working alongside the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to eliminate fraud and abuse at the EPA. So far, he has reclaimed $20 billion in EPA grants that had been funneled to left-wing environmental groups, dismantled costly Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives within the agency, and rolled back burdensome regulations.
Biden’s costly climate agenda is being dismantled piece by piece, and with this museum shut down, taxpayers are finally seeing some relief.
