By DOE Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The posts are up, the paint is dry, and the signs showing Hanford Site cleanup successes are available for viewing.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The final unneeded structure at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) has been torn down, bringing an end to demolition activities that have removed more than 13 million square feet of facilities. By completing this last teardown, Oak Ridge becomes the first site in the world to remove an entire uranium enrichment complex.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) and Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (VA-03) sent a letter to Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Scalia and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Azar demanding increased protections for our nation’s frontline workers as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) guidance to pharmaceutical manufacturers on its review standards for a future Emergency Use Authorization of a COVID-19 vaccine...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - A facility disposition crew at EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) recently encapsulated a concrete foundation slab left following the demolition of a utility building. EM and cleanup contractor CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley encapsulated the slab with a water-based coating...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced the release of a new report: U.S. Oil and Natural Gas: Providing Energy Security and Supporting Our Quality of Life. This report acknowledges the critical role of advanced energy technology innovation...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: These days, if you strike up a conversation with Scott Surovchak, he may take a moment to brag about his two-year-old grandson and how he remembers every detail he sees and hears. That apple didn’t fall far from the family tree - Surovchak also has impressive recollection, especially when it comes to...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy selected 13 projects to receive approximately $1.95 million in federal funding to develop conceptual designs of commercially viable technologies that will extract rare earth elements (REEs) from U.S. coal and coal by-product sources. Each...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) announced a $3 million inter-agency agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to research and develop tools and practices that will strengthen the cybersecurity of the Nation's energy sector and maritime transportation system.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
Release: Students Will Perform Thesis Research at National Laboratories
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after the Supreme Court announced it would hear FCC, et al. v. Prometheus Radio Project, et al.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced the release of a new report: U.S. Oil and Natural Gas: Providing Energy Security and Supporting Our Quality of Life. This report acknowledges the critical role of advanced energy technology innovation ...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - This year, over one million acres in Oregon and over four million acres in California have been destroyed by wildfires. Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), whose district in Oregon has lost entire towns as a result of the fires, penned an op-ed in The...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) announced a $3 million inter-agency agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to research and develop tools and practices that will strengthen the cybersecurity of the Nation's energy sector and maritime transportation system.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, issued the following statements after President Trump signed a presidential border-crossing permit for the Alaska-Alberta (A2A) Railway Development Corporation to lay track across the border between Alaska and Canada. The proposed ...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement on President Trump’s new executive order to improve our nation’s mineral security. The new order, issued on Wednesday evening, focuses on “addressing the threat to the domestic supply chain from reliance on critical minerals from foreign adversaries and supporting the domestic mining and processing industries."
By DOE Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement announcing Staff Director Mike Bloomquist has departed the committee for the private sector. Deputy Staff Director and E&C veteran Ryan Long will succeed Bloomquist as Staff Director for Committee Republicans, effective immediately.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 2, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement after Shimkus went to the House floor to request unanimous consent that the House of Representatives immediately consider the Committee-passed product. Unfortunately, Democrats rejected the request to bring the bill as adopted by committee to the House floor for consideration.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) issued a Final Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Savannah River Site (SRS) Integrated Mission Completion Contract (IMCC) procurement.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that Better Buildings, Better Plants partners have cumulatively saved more than $8 billion in energy costs and 1.7 quadrillion British thermal units (BTUs).
