Cantwell, Collins Release GAO Report Showing Climate Change Will Cost the Government Trillions of Dollars
(World News USA)

This year alone, the economic cost of climate change to the U.S. will exceed $300 billion GAO report reveals that by 2039, climate change will cost U.S. taxpayers more than $1 trillion Report underscores the need to act as soon as possible to mitigate the avoidable fiscal consequences for our economy and the federal budget Washington, D.C. - In the wake of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate; the multi-year drought across the west; and the wildfires in the nine western states, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a new report requested...