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Project to Double-Stack SRS Waste Canisters Reaches Milestone

News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM and its liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have reached another significant milestone in a project to double-stack canisters containing high-level radioactive waste.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) issued the following statement on being elected ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) for the 117th Congress.


Securing the United States Bulk-Power System Executive Order

News Release: Updated: April 20, 2021. On Jan. 20, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order on “Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis, " which, in part, suspended EO 13920, “Securing the United States Bulk-Power System " for 90 days. On April 20...


EM Crews Take Another Step Forward on Demolition of DOE Buildings at ETEC

News Release: SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - EM workers took down another building at the former Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) last week, bringing the total number of structures demolished at the site to 13.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) wrote to Apple CEO Tim Cook today urging review and improvement of Apple’s new App Privacy labels in light of recent reports suggesting they are often misleading or inaccurate.


DOE Welcomes Additional Biden-Harris Appointees

Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy today announced additional Biden-Harris Administration appointees joining the DOE team to deliver on President Biden’s climate priorities and create a clean energy future for the American people.


Pallone Opening Remarks at Hearing on Restoring Federal Climate Leadership

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) offered the following opening remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing titled, "Back in Action: Restoring Federal Climate Leadership:"


Republican Leader Rodgers Urges Chairman Pallone to Begin Bipartisan Negotiations on COVID Relief

News Release: Washington D.C- House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) sent a letter to Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone (D-NJ) urging him to pause the partisan sprint towards a reconciliation package for one week and begin earnest, bipartisan negations for COVID relief.


News Release: Washington, DC - Republican  Subcommittee Leader for the Environment and Climate Change David McKinley (R-WV) delivered remarks at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Back in Action: Restoring Federal Climate Leadership."


Pallone Praises Biden's Community Health Centers Vaccination Program

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on President Biden’s Community Health Centers Vaccination Program...


News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced today that the Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a full Committee markup on Thursday, Feb. 11, at 11 a.m. via Cisco Webex video conferencing on legislative recommendations for its budget reconciliation instructions, which were passed last week by the House and Senate.


Leader Rodgers Remarks at Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Hearing

News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris (R-WA) delivered remarks at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Back in Action: Restoring Federal Climate Leadership."


News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - An aerial seeding project on Hanford ’s Gable Mountain will help restore lost habitat following a wildland fire in June last year, which burned more than 5,500 acres on the mountain.


Leader Rodgers: Many questions remain unanswered as the Democrats jam President Biden’s $2 trillion ‘plan’ through Congress.

News Release: Washington, D.C.- House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after Committee Democrats released Energy and Commerce provisions of President Biden’s COVID-19 relief “plan."


News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee has invited officials from five manufacturers producing and developing COVID-19 vaccines to testify at a fully...


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) sent a letter to Acting Secretary of the Interior, Scott de la Vega, demanding answers on the Biden administration’s recent orders banning new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters.


Energy and Commerce Republican Leaders Issue Letter to Chairman Pallone on Holding Big Tech Accountable

News Release: Washington D.C.- House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Republican Subcommittee Leaders Rep. Robert Latta (R-OH), Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), and Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) issued the following joint statement on their letter asking Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr. to join Republicans in holding Big Tech accountable...


News Release: Washington D.C.- House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement on the Pre-Existing Conditions Protection Act of 2021...


Pallone Statement on White House Meeting with President Biden to Discuss COVID Relief

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after attending a White House meeting with President Biden, Vice President Harris, and House Democratic leaders to discuss the urgent need to provide COVID-19 pandemic relief to the American people...


Barrasso Budget Amendment: School Funding VS Biden Oil & Gas Leasing Ban

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Senate will have the chance to go on the record today to support students and schools in states that will suffer under the Biden administration’s oil and gas leasing ban.