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DOE to Host Webinar Series on Wildfire Mitigation Technologies to Protect the Electric Grid

Release: Free April Webinars Connect Stakeholders with DOE National Lab Tools to Boost Electric Infrastructure Resiliency to Dangerous Fires


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers delivered opening remarks at Wednesday’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing about the need for a diverse and reliable energy base.


Pallone Opening Remarks at Energy Subcommittee Legislative Hearing on the CLEAN Future Act

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks as prepared for delivery today at an Energy Subcommittee legislative hearing titled, “The CLEAN Future Act: Powering a Resilient and Prosperous America:"


Bipartisan E&C Leaders Call on Internet Providers to Raise Awareness of Emergency Broadband Benefit

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH), and subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) wrote to nine internet service providers (ISPs) ...


DOE Announces $54 Million for Microelectronics Research to Power Next-Generation Technologies

Release: National Labs Will Lead Transformation of Smart Devices, Clean Energy Technologies, and Semiconductor Manufacturing


Pallone Opening Remarks at Oversight Hearing to Examine the 2021 Texas Grid Failure

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled, “Power Struggle: Examining the 2021 Texas Grid Failure:"


Upton: Committee Democrats’ Green New Deal-Style Energy Policies Will Kill Jobs

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader for Energy Fred Upton delivered opening remarks at today’s subcommittee hearing on preserving jobs and avoiding Green New Deal-style energy and environment policies.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers delivered opening remarks at Wednesday’s Energy Subcommittee hearing about the need for a diverse and reliable energy base.


Bipartisan E&C Leaders Call on Internet Providers to Raise Awareness of Emergency Broadband Benefit

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Bob Latta (R-OH) wrote to nine internet service providers...


News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader for the Oversight and Investigations Morgan Griffith delivered remarks in a subcommittee hearing on the need for proper planning, preparation, and weatherization of energy grids across the country, not just in Texas.


News Release: SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - EM workers have started demolition on the final five DOE-owned buildings at the former Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC).


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), cosponsored bipartisan legislation to digitize public land mapping records to increase outdoor recreation and improve hunting and fishing access for sportsmen and women.


News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - A review EM recently conducted with oversight by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and state of Idaho found that cleanup decisions and actions at the DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site continue to protect people and the environment.


Disposal Facility Takes Shape to Support Hanford Tank Waste Treatment Mission

News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers continue to make progress on construction of the Integrated Disposal Facility, a key component of the Hanford Site ’s Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste program to begin treating tank waste.


REGISTER TODAY: April Advanced Manufacturing Stakeholder Workshops

News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) invites interested stakeholders to register to attend upcoming workshops that explore current and emerging challenges and opportunities in manufacturing and inform our future research and development (R&D) portfolio. Workshops throughout 2021 will focus on how to improve energy efficiency, material productivity, and competitiveness for U.S. manufacturers while reducing the sector’s carbon footprint.


News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM crews recently began demolishing the last facility standing in the former Biology Complex at the Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12) at Oak Ridge.


Moab Site, National Park Service Partner to Improve Environment

News Release: MOAB, Utah - EM ’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project and the National Park Service continue to find ways to help each other in a growing partnership that has improved local revegetation efforts.


Defense Waste Processing Facility Reaches 25 Years of Successful Operations at SRS

News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Twenty-five years ago this month, the Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) at the Savannah River Site (SRS) began radioactive operations.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks as prepared for delivery today at a Health Subcommittee legislative hearing titled, “Building on the ACA: Legislation to Expand Health Coverage and Lower Costs:"


Committee Leaders Request Full Accounting of How CPSC Spends Newly Appropriated $50 Million

News Release: WASHINGTON - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Republican Leader on the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), along with U.S. Sens. Roger Wicker (R-MS), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, ...