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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Communication and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement commending the passing of bipartisan legislation to enhance broadband health mapping and spectrum coordination.


INL Site Tested Retrieval Technologies Prior to Joining National Priorities List

News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Following several buried waste exhumation projects in the 1970s, the DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site tested technologies to allow for a larger waste retrieval effort and attempt to minimize the spread of contaminated soil.


As Buried Waste Exhumation Ends, Construction of a Landfill Cover Follows

News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - The Accelerated Retrieval Project I (ARP I), an effort to identify and exhume specific buried waste from a waste repository at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site, began in January 2005.


Bills addressed by Energy and Commerce Committee on April 4

There was activity on six bills related to the Energy and Commerce Committee on April 4.


DOE-GFO offers new grant application process starting April 5

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI): DATA AND RESEARCH NEEDS FOR CLIMATE-INFORMED LONG-TERM HYDROPOWER OPERATION AND RESOURCE PLANNING grant opened on April 5.


The Biden-Harris Administration Announces $500 Million Program for Better School Infrastructure

Release: DOE Seeks Public Input on Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding Program for Energy Upgrades to America’s 100,000 Public School Facilities


A History of Buried Waste at Idaho National Laboratory Site

News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Just months after the Experimental Breeder Reactor-I began generating electricity in December 1951 in a historic first, the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site opened its first waste repository on the 890-square-mile Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) site.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) released the following joint statement after the House of Representatives passed two health bills today...


U.S., State Officials Applaud Employees for Outpacing Idaho Cleanup Milestone

News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Elected officials and EM leaders last week commended the team that completed the exhumation of targeted waste from 5.69 acres of a Cold War weapons landfill at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site.


H.R. McMaster to Testify at Hearing on Biden’s Price Hike and America’s Pain at the Pump

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) announced today that Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, USA, Ret., who served as National Security Adviser, will be the Republican witness at the Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee...


News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - In the early 1990s, DOE, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and state of Idaho signed a record of decision to clean up a pit within a waste repository at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory Site using a chemical extraction process, which later proved unsuccessful.


News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Environmental monitoring near a waste repository originally named the “burial ground" at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site officially began in 1960 when the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) began drilling wells at the landfill perimeter to monitor for the migration of radioactive and hazardous constituents.


April 4: bills handled by Energy and Natural Resources Committee

There was activity on one bill related to the Energy and Natural Resources Committee on April 4.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced the release of its Strategic Vision, The Role of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management in Achieving Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions.


DOE-GFO grant application closes on May 18

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) - Request for Information on Energy Improvements at Public School Facilities grant opened on April 4.


“AMERICA'S ENERGY INDEPENDENCE“ was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H4017-H4018 on March 31


State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Program 2021 Year in Review

News Release: Secure energy infrastructure is critical to national and economic security. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recognizes that energy security planning and preparedness at the local and state level is one of the most important factors in building a more resilient energy sector that can prevent, mitigate, withstand, respond to, and recover from any disruptions - manmade or physical.


News Release: Secure energy infrastructure is critical to national and economic security. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recognizes that energy security planning and preparedness at the local and state level is one of the most important factors in building a more resilient energy sector that can prevent, mitigate, withstand, respond to, and recover from any disruptions - manmade or physical.


The US Energy Department published a one page notice on April 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee; Meeting discussed on April 1 by Energy Department

The US Energy Department published a one page notice on April 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.