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NNSA Awards $37 Million to Promote U.S. Production of Critical Medical Isotope

Release: Wisconsin-Based Company Will Help Secure U.S. Supply of Mo-99 Used in 40,000 Medical Procedures Daily, Promote Nuclear Nonproliferation


News Release: Washington, D.C - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after the Supreme Court reversed President Joe Biden’s unlawful eviction moratorium...


News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity (ED) announced the upcoming Inclusive Energy Innovation Prize. Scheduled to open for submissions in September 2021, the new prize will provide cash prizes...


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm issued the following statement today announcing Tracey A. LeBeau as Administrator and CEO of Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). LeBeau has served as Interim Administrator since March and has...


DOE Announces Tracey LeBeau as Western Area Power Administration Administrator

Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm issued the following statement today announcing Tracey A. LeBeau as Administrator and CEO of Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). LeBeau has served as Interim Administrator since March and has ...


DOE Announces $54 Million to Increase Energy Efficiency in Microelectronics Technologies

Release: National Labs Will Lead Groundbreaking R&D in Computing, Communication, and Sensing for Broad Use Technologies


E&C Republican Leaders Request Further Info From NIH & NIAID Following Concerns of Wuhan Lab Biosafety Procedures

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a new letter Tuesday to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins.


ETTP Transformation Integral to Oak Ridge’s $7.2 Billion Boost to Economy

News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - A report released last week by the East Tennessee Economic Council shows DOE creates $7.2 billion in economic benefits and high-quality jobs annually for the state’s economy through research, national security, and environmental cleanup missions in Oak Ridge.


News Release: SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - Crews are in the homestretch of achieving an EM 2021 priority to complete demolition of all DOE-owned buildings at the former Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) site in Ventura County, California. Here, workers use high-reach shears to begin demolition of the Sodium Pump...


WPTO Releases RFI on Testing Capabilities and Facilities to Validate Hydropower Technology Innovations

News Release: The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO), seeks comments on the testing facilities and capabilities for use by technology developers, manufacturers, designers, construction contractors, owners, regulators, researchers, and other stakeholders to validate and advance emerging and future hydropower technology (including pumped-storage technology) innovations, improved technical procedures, and advanced best practices.


Hanford Tank Farms Now Connected to Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant

News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Two major facilities critical to the tank waste treatment mission at the Hanford Site are now connected.


Demolition of Hanford Guard House Highlights Past, Paves Way for Future

News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) is continuing to reduce risk around the Plutonium-Uranium Extraction Plant - better known as PUREX - on the Hanford Site.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), along with Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Steve Daines (R-MT), John Hoeven (R-ND), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), and James Lankford (R-OK) sent a letter to President Joe Biden demanding to know why his administration is favoring foreign sources of oil over American oil.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement about the budget resolution that passed the House today...


News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM awarded a former analytical services contractor nearly $149,000, or about 89% of the available award fee, for its work at the Hanford Site during a performance evaluation period of September 2020 to April 2021.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor today in support of passing the budget resolution that will allow congressional committees to begin work on the Build Back Better Act...


News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced a Notice of Sale of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). DOE intends to sell up to 20 million barrels of crude oil from the SPR. This notice of sale is to fulfill...


News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced the selection of six projects to receive a total of nearly $1 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D) under funding opportunity announcement (FOA) 2404, Advanced Processing of Rare Earth Elements and Critical Minerals for Industrial and Manufacturing Applications.


News Release: In traditional Iroquois society, women were the keepers of culture. Following in the footsteps of Skywoman, the hero at the center of their creation story, they sowed and tended the seeds, dancing in the direction of the sun to sustain the cycle of life.


House Committee Chairs Release Statement on GAO Report on Keystone Pipeline Safety Concerns

News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL), and Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Chairman Donald M. Payne, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report that examined the safety performance of TC Energy.