We’ve been telling you about Harry Reid’s bargain with President Obama to kill the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site in Nevada in return for all but shutting down the Senate. It turns out the deal is even more expensive than that.

That’s clear from a Monday report by the National Law Journal, which reviewed federal payouts in 2014 to resolve litigation against the government. The Energy Department was the biggest spender, accounting for nearly one-third ($929 million) of the $3 billion the feds forked over in verdicts or settlements....