By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Medicare coverage for novel drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease will continue to be restricted by the Biden administration’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency announced this week, despite numerous bipartisan requests to reconsider. Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) issued the following statement condemning the announcement...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2023
News Release: Editor's Note: Founded by the National Society of Professional Engineers in 1951, National Engineers Week is dedicated to ensuring a diverse and well-educated future engineering workforce by increasing understanding of and interest in engineering and technology careers.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2023
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced nearly $2.7 million for five research and development (R&D) projects that will help to accelerate national and international deployment of carbon management technologies that capture carbon dioxide...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2023
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers with EM Richland Operations Office contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) are making progress preparing the Hanford Site ’s K West Reactor spent-fuel storage basin for draining and demolition.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), today announced $2.52 billion in funding for two carbon management programs to catalyze investments in transformative carbon capture systems and carbon transport and storage technologies. Funded by President...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), today announced funding to accelerate the creation of zero-emission vehicle corridors that expand the nation’s electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. The Department has awarded $7.4 million to seven...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2023
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Workers have removed materials such as oils, combustibles and environmental hazards from the C-333-A Feed Vaporization Facility at EM ’s Paducah Site as part of recent actions to prepare the building and its adjoining process gas building for future demolition.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement renewing calls for permitting reform in order to unleash American innovation and chips.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2023
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Feb. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2023
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) awarded a Task Order to Professional Project Services, Inc of Oak Ridge, Tennessee for the new Technical Support Services Contract (TSSC), to be performed at the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2023
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, at the inaugural Floating Offshore Wind Shot™ Summit, the Departments of Energy, the Interior, Commerce, and Transportation convened federal, state, Tribal, labor, industry, and community leaders to discuss significant progress toward development of floating offshore wind in the United States.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) celebrated the groundbreaking of its Generation 3 concentrating solar-thermal pilot facility at Sandia National Laboratories. This demonstration is the culmination of a $100 million research effort to develop next-generation concentrating solar-thermal...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) and Energy, Climate, and Grid Security Subcommittee Chair Jeff Duncan (R-SC) today announced a subcommittee markup on nine pieces of legislation.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $48 million in funding to support a new program focused on developing power grid technologies that improve control and protection of the domestic power grid. Modernizing the nation’s grid infrastructure with improved efficiency and...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2023
News Release: Charleston, WV - Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, applauded the cooperation between West Virginia and Form Energy Inc., to site Form Energy’s first iron-air battery manufacturing plant in Weirton, West Virginia. The manufacturing plant, utilizing incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), will support 750 full-time jobs and help to bring new opportunity to West Virginia.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2023
Release: Funded Projects will Develop New Technologies that Minimize Power Grid Failures and Outages, Streamline Cost-Efficient Grid Operations Across the Country
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement renewing calls for permitting reform in order to unleash American innovation and chips.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2023
The US Energy Department published a three page notice on Feb. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2023
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the Department released a Final Request for Proposal (RFP) for a new Hanford Site Occupational Medical Services contract to provide continued occupational medical services to federal and contractor employees at the Hanford Site, located near Richland, Washington. The new contract adds occupational medical services to employees at Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, supporting direct-feed low-activity waste operations.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2023
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Three Savannah River Site (SRS) contractors recently collaborated to welcome their first joint cohort of apprentices as part of the Nuclear Fundamentals Program, which will provide over 100 trained operators to the site upon its completion.
