By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm issued the following statement today on President Biden’s intent to nominate Dr. Geraldine Richmond for Under Secretary for Science, Andrew Light for Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, and Sam Walsh for General Counsel.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Senate voted to use the Congressional Review Act to restore the popular, common sense methane emissions standards established under the Obama Administration...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following remarks in today’s Health subcommittee hearing on long-haul coronavirus patients and related research.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement tonight on President Biden's first Joint Address to Congress...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on President Biden’s American Families Plan...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing titled, “The Long Haul: Forging a Path through the Lingering Effects of COVID-19:"
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement about President Biden’s joint address to Congress.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on long-haul coronavirus patients and related research.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 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), delivered the following remarks at a full committee hearing to examine energy development on federal lands, focusing on the current status of the Department of the Interior’s onshore oil and gas leasing program.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - It’s Earth Month every month on the Hanford Site, where workers routinely ship tens of thousands of pounds of universal waste and recycling to the site’s Centralized Consolidation/Recycling Center (CCRC) for processing.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 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), welcomed the Honorable Mark Gordon, governor of Wyoming, to the committee. Gordon was testifying before the committee at a hearing to examine energy development on federal lands.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - An EM cleanup technology is expected to reduce radioactive iodine-129 found in soil and groundwater near the center of the Savannah River Site (SRS) to levels well below regulatory limits.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: Today, the U.S Department of Energy (DOE) Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) issued a $13 million solicitation for new energy projects that will help federal facilities improve the efficiency of their operations and reduce their carbon footprint. Through this Federal Agency Call (FAC), entitled...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a non-competitive financial assistance renewal grant (DE-EM0005227) to the Savannah River Site Community Reuse Organization (SRSCRO), a non-profit agency. Under the grant, titled “Workforce Opportunities in Regional Careers I (WORC I)"...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - As the EM Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) team moves closer to starting up the first of two melters inside the Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Facility, plant contractor Bechtel National, Inc. (BNI) has launched a website that explains the WTP commissioning process, including critical activities such as the loss-of-power test and the melter heatup process.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - A typical day for the surveillance and maintenance crew at EM ’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) might begin with cleaning and sanitizing common areas and end with fixing a door, moving offices, changing a light bulb, or operating a tractor.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) sent a letter to the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) requesting a review of a potential conflict of interest involving DOE Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s investments in Proterra, Inc. and her promotion of electric vehicles.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: The Weldon Spring Site Waterline Replacement Project at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management’s (LM) Weldon Spring Site, Missouri, began in early 2020 when site engineers started planning to right-size a remediation-era waterline supplying a storage building and office trailer...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM 's Office of River Protection (ORP) tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) recently started testing a system integral to treating the Hanford Site ’s tank waste.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chair Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Thursday, May 6, at 11:30 a.m. (EDT) on the disparities that exist in accessing affordable, reliable high-speed internet. The hearing is entitled, “Broadband Equity: Addressing Disparities in Access and Affordability."
