GAO Report: Majority of Government's Environmental Liability is Nuclear Waste

摘要

The U.S. Department of Energy is responsible for more than 80 percent of the U.S. government's estimated $450 billion in environmental liabilities, a federal agency said in a report published this year. The agency, the U.S. Government Accountability Office, added the government's environmental liabilities to a high-risk list of federal programs and operations in a report published in February. Total environmental liabilities for the federal government are estimated at $447 billion. DOE is responsible for about $372 billion of them, or 83 percent, according to a fiscal year 2016 estimate, the GAO said.