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Walden Remarks at Energy Subcommittee Hearing

News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered remarks at an Energy Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Generating Equity: Improving Clean Energy Access and Affordability."


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 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Chad Wolf today following alarming allegations of widespread...


Joint Statement on Establishing a Strategic Vision for Energy Partnership

Release: Joint Statement on Establishing a Strategic Vision for Energy Partnership among the Ministry of Energy of the State of Israel, the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure of the United Arab Emirates, and the Department of Energy of the United States of America


News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement after the House passed 16 bipartisan health bills from the Energy and Commerce Committee. Last week, the House passed ten bipartisan bills from the Health Subcommittee.


Pallone & Eshoo on House Passage of 16 Health Care Bills

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) released the following joint statement today after the House of Representatives passed 16 health care bills on the Floor this week...


News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Energy Subcommittee hearing titled, “Generating Equity: Improving Clean Energy Access and Affordability:"


News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Environment and Climate Change Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) released the following joint statement today condemning House Republicans for blocking the long-awaited, previously bipartisan Alan Reinstein Ban Asbestos Now Act from being passed this week...


News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement tonight praising passage of the updated Heroes Act, which passed on the House Floor by a vote of 214 - 207...


Rocky Flats Site Original Landfill Stabilized

News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) completed a maintenance activity in August to stabilize a landfill at the Rocky Flats Site in Colorado. LM installed 267 ground anchors and more than 4,400 feet of subsurface drains to alleviate downhill slumping of the steep slopes of the Original Landfill. The project began in August 2019.


News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Energy and Commerce Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), member of the House Republican China Task Force, released the following statement on the release of the China Task Force report.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.'s (D-NJ) remarks as prepared for delivery at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled, "Pathway to a Vaccine: Ensuring a Safe and Effective Vaccine People Will Trust," are enclosed below...


News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered remarks at a Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Pathway to a Vaccine: Ensuring a Safe and Effective Vaccine People Will Trust."


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Sept. 28, 2020 the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Office of Defense for Sustainment (OASD(S)) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to establish a framework to collaborate and partner on efforts related to energy resilience and the protection of military installations and defense critical electric infrastructure (DCEI).


News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM has successfully integrated the liquid waste treatment system with the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) at the Savannah River Site (SRS) after 10 years of complex preparatory work.


DOE, Congressional Officials Celebrate Launch of Salt Waste Processing Facility at Savannah River Site

News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The start of operations of the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) at the Savannah River Site (SRS) represents a leap forward in DOE’s ability to tackle tank waste, one of the most challenging environmental risks, Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar said during a Sept. 24 ceremony marking the facility coming online.


News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy awarded the Hanford 222-S Laboratory Contract that will provide analytical laboratory services at the Hanford Site, to Hanford Laboratory Management and Integration, LLC (HLMI) located in Richland, WA. The HLMI members are Navarro Research and Engineering...


SWPF to Accelerate Tank Waste Cleanup

News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM and prime contractor Parsons Corporation are poised to begin transferring radioactive material to the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) for processing at a rate eight times faster than recent waste treatment operations at the Savannah River Site (SRS).


DOE Officials Tour Brookhaven Landmark Ahead of Demolition

News Release: UPTON, N.Y. - Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar and Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center Deputy Director Melody Bell, pictured at left, recently visited Brookhaven National Laboratory and viewed progress in an EM project to demolish the High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR) exhaust stack...


EM, NNSA Teams Collaborate on Milestone Waste Shipment to WIPP

News Release: LIVERMORE, Calif. - The first transuranic (TRU) waste shipment to depart Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in a decade has been safely shipped to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) for permanent disposal earlier this month.