Senior EM Official Defends Use of Cost Caps on Troubled Projects

Mike Nartker
WC Monitor
10/31/2014
AMELIA ISLAND, Fla.—A senior official in the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management defended here last week EM’s use of cost caps on a set of troubled cleanup projects, though acknowledged…

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