By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) released the following statement today in response to the Trump Administration’s refusal to hand over documents related to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) denial of an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) request to use hydroxychloroquine for certain COVID-19 patients...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced that the Health Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 10 a.m. (EDT) on the Affordable Care Act’s impacts on the status of health care coverage for Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic and the severe economic downturn. The hearing is entitled, “Health Care Lifeline: The Affordable Care Act and the COVID-19 Pandemic."
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $24 million in funding for 2 projects as part of the first stage of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy technologies with Untapped Potential (SCALEUP) program. These ...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement on Committee Democrats’ continued attempts to politicize the search for a COVID-19 vaccine and the administration’s response efforts.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing titled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Opportunities for an Equitable, Low-Carbon Recovery:"
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered remarks at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee legislative hearing entitled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Opportunities for an Equitable, Low-Carbon Recovery."
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today attended and briefly spoke at a subcommittee hearing held by the Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining (PLFM). Murkowski spoke about the western wildfire crisis and S. 2533, a bill she introduced to help ensure Alaska Native elders are not disqualified from receiving food assistance and other federal benefits.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM and its liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) are advancing a project to double-stack canisters containing high-level radioactive sludge waste.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The Hanford Site ’s distinct history and ecosystem are positioned to stand the test of time thanks to the preservation and conservation efforts of the EM Richland Operations Office (RL) site stewardship division and contractor Mission Support Alliance (MSA).
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The Washington State Department of Health presented its distinguished Silver Certificate of Achievement to water treatment plant staff at the Hanford Site for five consecutive years of high performance on removing particles from water to help protect workers at the site.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Crews recently achieved a key milestone by removing all asbestos from a building being deactivated for demolition in the former Biology Complex at Oak Ridge.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of 12 projects to receive approximately $34 million in federal funding under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA), Small-Scale Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Systems and Hybrid Electrolyzer Technology Development.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - A successful EM cleanup project at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site is being studied to determine if it has met its objectives several years earlier than projected.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The EM complex is in a transformational period as long-term construction projects will soon shift to operations to tackle the Department’s most challenging environmental risk - radioactive waste stored in underground tanks, EM Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Todd Shrader said during a conference address last week.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM and its liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have completed significant upgrades to accelerate treatment and dispositioning of decontaminated salt waste.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: The Uranium Leasing Program (ULP), managed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM), celebrated a milestone this summer that was nearly 10 years in the making. As of July 2020, lessees signed agreements for the last remaining active ULP tracts (29 in total), opening the...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)-in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate-has awarded Cummins, Inc. approximately $1 million in federal funds to develop H2Rescue, a hydrogen fuel cell truck that will travel to disaster relief sites and provide power, heat, and water.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Committee 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 nine pharmaceutical companies currently developing COVID-19 vaccines seeking further information about their research and development efforts as well as how they intend to ensure that only a safe and effective product will be made available to the public.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-N.Y.), House Administration Committee Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Financial Services Committee Chairwoman...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of 12 projects to receive approximately $34 million in federal funding under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA), Small-Scale Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Systems and Hybrid Electrolyzer Technology Development.
