
By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: When Darina Castillo’s love of learning and passion for the environment led her to a career as a site manager at the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM), she never dreamed she would learn so much about history.

By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette issued the following statement on the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Dr. Jennifer Doudna.

By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) wrote to Amazon CEO and Chairman Jeff Bezos today requesting that he launch an investigation into the safety of Amazon’s product line, AmazonBasics, as well as answer a series of questions pertaining to the company’s product safety and recall practices.

By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
Release: When Darina Castillo’s love of learning and passion for the environment led her to a career as a site manager at the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM), she never dreamed she would learn so much about history.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar to share their concerns with the HHS Program Support Center (PSC).

By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) wrote to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar today raising serious concerns over his decision to overrule career...

By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
Release: High School and Middle School Teams Nationwide Can Now Sign Up to Compete

By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) wrote to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows today urging him to allow contact tracers to investigate the large outbreak of coronavirus cases surrounding President Trump and White House staff.

By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
Release: EPIC Program to Energize National Energy Innovation Ecosystem
By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH), House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation...

By DOE Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - EM has created a new interactive map of its completed cleanup sites. Visit this webpage to view the map, which allows users to zoom in and out of locations, and click on completed cleanup sites for details about them. As the largest environmental cleanup program in the world, EM has...

By DOE Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - A 12-year cleanup campaign conducted by EM at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has ended successfully, removing more than 5,000 pounds of chemical solvents from soil and leading to an annual cost savings of $264,000.

By DOE Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM and Idaho National Laboratory Site cleanup contractor Fluor Idaho are testing technologies that will enable the retrieval and transfer of a granulated high-level radioactive waste called calcine that’s been in storage for decades.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM and its liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have developed a system that improves protection for workers who handle and dispose of contaminated laboratory waste created at the site’s (DWPF) during the vitrification process.

By DOE Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers recently moved three enclosures that make up a system that will pretreat Hanford Site tank waste for processing to their permanent home onsite.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Just as Oak Ridge crews have removed unneeded buildings at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP), they also have disposed of wastes stored there, a critical step to completing cleanup at the site.

By DOE Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy’s Directorate General for Climate and Energy issued a statement of intent (SOI) to collaborate on collecting, analyzing, and sharing information...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The Department of Energy transferred the first batch of radioactive waste to the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) on Oct. 5, officially starting the “hot" commissioning of the facility.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Innovative equipment known as “bubblers" have been improving liquid waste operations at EM’s Savannah River Site (SRS) for the last decade and will aid in the future operations of the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) - an.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: MOAB, Utah - EM’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project is now transporting more residual radioactive material per shipment for disposal than ever before.