By DOE Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
News Release: Washington D,C.- House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement on President Joseph Biden’s Inauguration Day.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after President Biden signed an Executive Order rejoining the United States to the Paris Climate Agreement...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it is partnering with Youngstown State University and DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to advance workforce development for the battery manufacturing industry. The $1 million project will assist in the development of an Energy ...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected projects to develop next-generation wind turbine drivetrain technologies that will facilitate the continued growth of wind turbines for both land-based tall wind and offshore applications. These projects will develop more efficient, smaller, and lighter-weight generators that will lower costs and make wind power more affordable. To learn more about wind turbine drivetrain technologies, see our blog.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) issued the following statement in response to President-elect Biden’s expected executive order to stop construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 20, 2021
Release: Washington, D.C. – The Department of Energy announced the recipients of the Secretary’s Honor Awards today, which recognize DOE employees and contractors for their service and contributions to the Department’s mission and the benefit of the Nation.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: EM joined other government organizations and stakeholders from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada to discuss different types of in situ decommissioning (ISD) and “ISD-like" remediation and decommissioning strategies, and to better define how these approaches relate to one another, to relevant regulations, and to international frameworks.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: EM Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Todd Shrader emphasized the importance of collaboration and effective partnerships with state officials based on a strong foundation of trust during the winter meeting of the National Governors Association (NGA) Federal Facilities Task Force (FFTF) on Jan. 14.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - It’s a new year, and EM and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) have created a new calendar to raise safety awareness among site workers and their families.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Large silver pipes that crisscross the Savannah River Site (SRS) and run along many of its roadways may prompt visitors, new employees, and others to ask, ‘What are all those huge pipes used for?’.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - The EM and National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Los Alamos field offices completed their first comingled shipment of transuranic waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) on Jan. 14.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Five University of Tennessee students are helping design tools for Oak Ridge’s cleanup, continuing a collaboration among the university, EM, and cleanup contractor UCOR to train and develop the future cleanup workforce.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - At a time when community leaders work to address the challenges of social and racial injustice in their communities, the message that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. brought to the nation more than 60 years ago continues to be relevant today.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) released the following statement on a federal appeals court’s decision to strike down the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule. The ACE rule repealed and replaced the Obama administration’s so-called Clean Power Plan rule.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Office of River Protection made another step toward pretreatment of tank waste on the Hanford Site. Workers with Hanford contractor Washington River Protection Solutions recently installed three ion exchange columns and two filter assemblies at the Tank Side Cesium Removal system.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: UPTON, N.Y. - Demolition of the Brookhaven National Laboratory’s High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR) exhaust stack is underway. EM crews are performing the work using a patented concrete chimney demolition system, which is pictured in operation at the top of the stack. This safe and effective system allows...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) wrote to outgoing Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today requesting that the agency rescind a batch of letters it sent to states earlier this month attempting to make it harder for the incoming Biden Administration to reverse illegal and harmful Medicaid changes championed by the Trump Administration.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
Release: Department of Energy Releases Plastics Innovation Challenge Draft Roadmap and Request for Information
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) wrote to the International Code Council (ICC) today requesting information regarding the integrity of the International...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM has successfully completed the hot commissioning testing phase of operations at the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF), having validated radiation shielding, environmental emissions, and product waste acceptance requirements while processing over 320,000 gallons of radioactive liquid waste from a tank farm at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
