Environmental legends long associated with EPA came out Tuesday to honor the agency’s new museum.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan held a ribbon-cutting ceremony outside of the agency’s headquarters in downtown Washington. Current and former officials, along with environmental activists and school children, joined the celebratory affair for the National Environmental Museum and Education Center, which documents more than 50 years of EPA’s history.
Former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, who attended the event and toured the museum, said it was great to have a place where people can see, feel and touch the work that has been done by the agency since its founding in 1970.
Calling EPA “an amazing institution,” McCarthy told E&E News, “To show it off this way, it’s important not to EPA, but for the people who need to understand that this stuff is so meaningful, that it’s really protecting our health and well-being.”
