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Pallone Remarks at Legislative Hearing on Vaccine Access

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee legislative hearing titled, “Booster Shot: Enhancing Public Health through Vaccine Legislation:"


DOE Welcomes New Biden-Harris Appointees

Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced additional Biden-Harris Administration appointees that have joined the team to deliver on President Biden’s bold climate goals and help build a more prosperous, equitable clean energy future for every American worker and family.


News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM ’s Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) Analytical Laboratory team has completed a commissioning test of a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filtration system that uses a new filter design that exceeds nuclear industry standards and requirements.


News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) recently awarded more than $15,000 in educational grants to local elementary school teachers, helping to support science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) curriculum in their classrooms.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) delivered opening remarks at Tuesday’s Health Subcommittee hearing on vaccine legislation.


News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - EM and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) recently removed a septic system and well associated with a former one-room schoolhouse demolished in 2007.


ICYMI: Secretary Granholm, Industry Leaders Discuss Public-Private Sector Efforts to Develop Domestic Battery Supply Chains

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm today hosted a roundtable discussion with seven members of the lithium battery industry-each actively representing a segment of the battery supply chain-on how the federal government and private industry can collaborate to strengthen the domestic...


News Release: EM will host its next Business Opportunities Forum virtually on the Zoom video conferencing platform on June 24 from 3 to 4:15 p.m. Eastern time.


U.S. Department of Energy Announces Winners of Annual Collegiate Wind Competition

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) joined universities and wind energy experts from across the country on Friday to announce the winners of the Collegiate Wind Competition. Over the course of the academic year, thirteen undergraduate teams designed, built, and tested model wind turbines...


Leader McKinley Points Out the Costs of a Net Zero Emissions Economy

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change Republican Leader David B. McKinley (R-WV) spoke at the beginning of Monday’s forum on Capitol Hill on the Biden administration’s environmental agenda. The forum, “Mounting Costs: The Real Harm of the Biden Administration’s Environmental Agenda on the American People and the Economy," features members of Congress and experts, is being hosted by Subcommittee Leader McKinley.


DOE Invests $1.5 Million to Explore Benefits of Carbon-Based Building Materials

News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced the selection of three projects to receive $1.5 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D) to explore how carbon-based building materials can support the Administration’s commitment to building a clean energy economy that creates good-paying union jobs and transforms disadvantaged areas into healthy and thriving communities.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) joined universities and wind energy experts from across the country on Friday to announce the winners of the Collegiate Wind Competition. Over the course of the academic year, thirteen undergraduate teams designed, built, and tested model wind turbines...


U.S. Department of Energy Announces New Vehicle Technologies Funding and Future Partnerships with Battery Industry

News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $200 million in funding over the next five years for electric vehicles, batteries, and connected vehicles projects at DOE national labs and new DOE partnerships to support electric vehicles innovation.


DOE Announces Winners of Annual Collegiate Wind Competition

Release: Students From 13 Universities Represent the Next Generation of Wind and Clean Energy Professionals


ICYMI: Secretary Granholm, Industry Leaders Discuss Public-Private Sector Efforts to Develop Domestic Battery Supply Chains

Release: Discussion with Leaders from Throughout the Battery Supply Chain Follows Release of National Battery Blueprint


ICYMI: Secretary Granholm Touts American Jobs Plan, Nevada's Clean Energy Leadership

Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday and Friday, Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm traveled to Nevada to make the case for the American Jobs Plan and ways it will supercharge clean energy investments in Nevada and throughout the country.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a markup on Wednesday, June 16 at 10:30 a.m. via Cisco Webex video conferencing. The Subcommittee will mark up legislation to increase access to safe, affordable water and protect Americans from PFAS contamination.


WATCH LIVE: House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans Holding Forum on the Real Harm of the Biden Administration’s Environmental Agenda

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Republican Leader of the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee David B. McKinley (R-WV) is hosting a forum today on the harmful impacts the Biden administration’s environmental agenda entitled: “Mounting Costs: The Real Harm of the Biden Administration’s Environmental Agenda on the American People and the Economy."


News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the Office of Environmental Management (EM) reaffirmed the award of the Security Services contract at the Savannah River Site (SRS) near Aiken, South Carolina to SRS Critical Infrastructure Security, LLC (SCIS) of Herndon, VA. DOE had suspended contract performance until corrective...