By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a draft Environmental Assessment (DOE/EA-2107) that analyzes and describes the potential environmental impacts associated with proposed building demolition at the Piqua, Ohio, Decommissioned Reactor Site in Miami County.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced additional Biden-Harris Administration appointees that have joined the team to help build a more prosperous and equitable clean energy future for the American people.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Two major facilities critical to the tank waste treatment mission at the Hanford Site are now connected.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced 10 winners for the first phase of the Envelope Retrofit Opportunities for Building Optimization Technologies (E-ROBOT) Prize, a $5 million competition focused on fast-tracking advanced robotics solutions...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
Release: Funding Supports New Technology and Advances in Future Quantum Internet to Enable Discovery Science and Clean Energy Applications
By DOE Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Republican Leader Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) released the following statement regarding the data breach and theft of personal information from T-Mobile current and potential customers...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) sent letters to three manufacturers of insulin in the U.S.-Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi-following up on January 2019 letters to those companies and requesting additional information, including any specific steps the companies have taken to lower the cost of insulin and increase patient access since the Committee’s initial letters.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 19, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) introduced the “Information Sharing and Advanced Communication (ISAAC) Alerting" Act, which directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to prepare a report on how to implement a nationwide 9-1-1 disability alerting system.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced the selection of four additional research and development (R&D) projects that will receive $6 million to study new structured material systems and/or component designs for direct air capture (DAC) technology. These four projects join six previously announced DAC projects selected to receive $12 million in DOE funding. View the June 2021 selections here.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — In case you missed it, this past Sunday and Monday, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm traveled to Alaska to join U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski on a tour of clean energy research and development and renewable energy facilities in Fairbanks and Anchorage. Secretary Granholm’s ...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM crews at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have removed highly radioactive components from a reactor pool in a facility slated for demolition.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Employees of Mid-America Conversion Services (MCS), the maintenance and operations contractor for EM ’s Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Project, recently surpassed 1 million working hours without a recordable injury or lost-time accident.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - Workers at EM ’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) recently reached a key milestone six weeks early by completing the foundation for a building critical to the Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System (SSCVS), which will be the largest containment fan system among DOE facilities when finished.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - With hopes for rain during monsoon season amid exceptional drought conditions, the EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and cleanup contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B) recently activated samplers at 183 monitoring sites that collect surface water and stormwater for potential contaminants around Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Local contractor Two Rivers Terminal recently made its first delivery of materials that will be used to immobilize Hanford Site underground tank waste in glass for disposal to the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP).
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM has installed an improved fire suppression system on a one-of-a-kind Savannah River Site (SRS) vehicle that moves high-level waste canisters.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
Release: Nine Research Projects Will Advance Cost-Effective Carbon Capture Technologies
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: A nonprofit that advocates for purchasing practices that improve the environment recently honored several EM sites and contractors for buying green products that are more energy efficient, less toxic, longer lasting, and easier to recycle.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Office of River Protection tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) recently began retrieving radioactive and chemical waste from another massive underground storage tank at the Hanford Site.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) wrote to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan today to request information regarding reports of concerning irregularities in the Agency’s chemical review program.
