By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) is collaborating with Gunnison County, Colorado, to connect more domestic residences with private water wells within the groundwater contamination boundary at the former Gunnison uranium mill site to a municipal water supply.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
News Release: The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program is announcing the release of its FY 2021 SBIR/STTR Phase I topics. Covering the research and development priorities of all EERE’s Technology Offices, these 12 topics comprised of 49 subtopics solicit innovative research across all three EERE Technology Sectors: Transportation, Renewable Energy, and Energy Efficiency.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
Release: Research Aims at Capturing “Live” Cellular Processes
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy released up to $5 million for its first-ever American-Made Buildings Prize on Envelope Retrofit Opportunities for Building Optimization Technologies (E-ROBOT).
By DOE Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $4.2 million for 14 projects to use the U.S. National Laboratories’ supercomputing resources to strengthen domestic manufacturing. Through DOE’s High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program, competitively selected projects will use advanced modeling, simulation, and data analysis to achieve energy, material, and cost savings in manufacturing.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 13, 2020
News Release: House and Senate Democratic health care leaders called on the Trump administration to reverse its recent approval of Georgia waivers that would make health care less accessible in the state. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr., D-N.J., House Ways and Means Committee Chairman...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 12, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced selections for $130 million in new projects to advance solar technologies. Through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office, DOE will fund 67 research projects across 30 states that reduce the cost of solar, increase U.S. manufacturing competitiveness, and improve the reliability of the nation’s electric grid.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 12, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released its Hydrogen Program Plan to provide a strategic framework for the Department’s hydrogen research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) activities.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 12, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced selections for $130 million in new projects to advance solar technologies. Through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office, DOE will fund 67 research projects across 30 states that reduce the cost of solar, increase U.S. manufacturing competitiveness, and improve the reliability of the nation’s electric grid.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF), designed to significantly increase the Savannah River Site's (SRS) ability to empty and close radioactive waste tanks, has processed thousands of gallons of waste in its first month of operation.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Mission Support Alliance (MSA) has awarded a $13 million subcontract to Fowler General Construction to build a new Hanford Site water treatment facility that will automate water services, and support treating tank waste and completing risk-reduction cleanup projects across the site.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. ― EM recently declared major design work complete for Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) facilities at the Hanford Site ’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP).
By DOE Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: PIKE COUNTY, Ohio - Additional air monitoring stations are being installed that will enhance environmental and radiological data collection during demolition of the Portsmouth Site’s three large gaseous diffusion plant buildings where uranium was enriched throughout the Cold War.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: DENVER - A little-known team of experts at the Denver Federal Center and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is preserving America’s nuclear weapons research, a commitment that involves capturing, organizing, and digitizing decades of information.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: EM contractors across the complex have been honored with a variety of awards for safety and health excellence in DOE’s Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) this year.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph Simons demanding that the two commissions stop work on all partisan or controversial items currently under consideration in light of the results of last week’s presidential election.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM’s cleanup at Oak Ridge is supported by numerous vehicles that ship waste, transport personnel, and deliver items. With so many types of vehicles operating in a variety of work spaces, there is a potential for accidents.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: Today, Committee Chairs across the House of Representatives sent letters directing the White House and more than 50 federal agencies within their jurisdictions to comply with federal record-keeping laws and preserve information responsive to congressional subpoenas and investigations.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, today issued statements on new legislation they introduced to allow the Alaska Native communities of Haines, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, and Tenakee to form urban corporations and receive land entitlements under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA).
By DOE Newswire | Nov 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) required Zoom Video Communications, Inc. to...
