[CPEO-MEF] NASA: "NASA Faces $1.9 Billion Bill to Clean up Contaminated Sites Across the U.S."

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

NASA Faces $1.9 Billion Bill to Clean up Contaminated Sites Across the U.S.

BY MATT CANNON 
Newsweek
January 21, 2021

NASA faces a bill of about $1.9 billion to clean up its sites across the U.S, a report by government auditors has found.

The space agency faces soaring costs for the restoration of former sites, with the potential costs having increased by 45 percent since 2014, according to the Government Accountability Office report published last Friday.

Environmental cleanups could cost $1.9 billion as of fiscal year 2020, a rise of about $180 million from 2019 and a rise of $724 million from 2014.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.newsweek.com/nasa-1-9-billion-bill-clean-contaminated-sites-us-1563347

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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