By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2021
News Release: A Diné from the Navajo Nation has been hired to fill the role as liaison for the Community Outreach Network (CON).
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2021
News Release: Yesterday, at the Energy & Environmental Building Alliance’s High Performance Home Summit, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm announced the grand award winners of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) 2021 Housing Innovation Awards, the highest honor builders can receive for constructing Zero Energy Ready Homes.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Energy and Commerce Committee passed its provisions of the Build Back Better Act...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2021
Release: New Initiative Aids Environmental Justice And Fossil Fuel Communities in Developing Plans For Sustained Economic Empowerment, Improved Local Environments
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, Sept. 22, at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) in the John D. Dingell Room, ...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today launched the Local Energy Action Program (Communities LEAP)-an initiative designed to help environmental justice communities and communities with historical ties to fossil fuel industries take direct control of their clean energy future. The...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 14, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - With help from Hanford Site employees, a large area of the site with cultural significance to tribal nations in the Northwest is making a comeback after a wildfire caused by lightning in June 2020.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 14, 2021
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Since the inception of the EM program in 1989, the Paducah Site has made notable achievements in groundwater cleanup, waste removal, and other work advancing its environmental cleanup mission following more than 60 years of uranium enrichment operations and support activities.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 14, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Office of River Protection (ORP) contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) recently conducted load testing on a crane that will play a crucial role in assembling spare melters critical to tank waste treatment at the Hanford Site.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 14, 2021
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM is preparing the next wave of buildings for demolition at the Y-12 National Security Complex as part of a new chapter of cleanup in Oak Ridge.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 14, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - A third tank at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has been converted into a blend tank to support feeding waste to the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF).
By DOE Newswire | Sep 14, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Scientists in the EM program are using a 62-acre plantation of pine trees and other natural resources to greatly limit radioactively contaminated groundwater from reaching waterways on the Savannah River Site (SRS).
By DOE Newswire | Sep 14, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The EM Nevada Program and its environmental program services contractor, Navarro Research and Engineering, have initiated characterization and hazard reduction activities to prepare for upcoming demolition and closure work at two large, unique, and complex legacy nuclear facilities on the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS).
By DOE Newswire | Sep 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks in today’s markup defending the Hyde Amendment and upholding the dignity of all life.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 14, 2021
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - The West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) recently conducted a graduation ceremony for three security police officers who completed a seven-week security training course through a first-time partnership with the local sheriff’s office.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2021
News Release: As scientists ramped up their plans to conduct the first test of an atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert, planned for mid-July 1945, a small cadre of physicians rushed to complete a report on the possible health effects of the blast.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after President Biden announced his intention to nominate Alvaro Bedoya to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC):
By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), issued the following statement on the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s markup of the Democrats’ reckless tax and spending spree.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Friday, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm traveled to Maine and New Hampshire to join U.S. Senator Angus King, U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan, and U.S. Representative Chris Pappas to tour renewable energy facilities across New England and emphasize the benefits of clean ...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Full Committee markup on the Build Back Better Act...
