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News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Yesterday, the Department of Energy (DOE) approved Critical Decision-4 (CD-4) and Authorization To Operate for the (SWPF) at Savannah River Site (SRS), authorizing “hot" or radioactive operations to begin at the facility. CD-4 signals project completion and the transition from project phase to operations.

Pact Sets Stage for Idaho Site Contractor to Help Small Business Grow

News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site cleanup contractor has signed a mentor-protégé agreement with a firm named DOE’s Small Business of the Year for fiscal 2019.

Crews Safely Slow Salt Rock Movement in WIPP Underground

News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) crews have marked a significant achievement by installing more than 13,000 bolts this year to slow the natural movement of salt rock in the underground repository where radioactive waste is emplaced.

Department of Energy Awards $13.5 Million for Direct Air Capture Research

Release: Basic Science Breakthroughs Sought in CO2 management

Department of Energy Announces the First Five Consortium

Release: Artificial Intelligence Tools to Help First Responders Save Lives, Property

Energy Secretary Visits Hanford to View Progress, Plans for Future

News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette had an opportunity last week to see progress being made at the Hanford Site by two Department of Energy offices, four major contractors and nearly 11,000 site employees working together as a One Hanford team, which is making preparations to treat tank waste and reduce site risks to protect the workforce, the public and the environment.

Major Milestone for Alaska’s 1002 Area: BLM Issues Record of Decision for Oil and Gas Program

News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, today issued the following statements after the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its Record of Decision (ROD) for an oil and gas program in the non-wilderness Coastal Plain (1002 Area) of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).

Energy Department Manufacturing Institute Announces a Request for Proposals to Address Recycling, Reuse and Remanufacturing Challenges

News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Reducing EMbodied-Energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Manufacturing Institute announced approximately $35 million to support research and development (R&D) that will enable U.S. manufacturers to increase the recovery, recycling, reuse, and remanufacturing of plastics, metals, electronic waste, and fibers.

E&C Chairs to Investigate the Impact of the Postal Service’s Operational Changes on Delivery of Prescription Drugs

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) today announced plans to investigate the impacts the U.S. Postal Service’s organizational and operational changes are having on the safe and timely delivery of prescription drugs, particularly in the midst of the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic...

Department of Energy Announces $37 Million for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at DOE Scientific User Facilities

Release: Awards to Sustain Facilities’ Leadership in Advancing Data for Science

LM Recognizes National Navajo Code Talkers Day

News Release: National Navajo Code Talkers Day, which occurs on Aug. 14, formally recognizes the unique World War II contributions of Native American soldiers who served as elite cryptographers, encoding and transmitting messages using a complex Navajo language-based code that was never broken by Japanese forces in the Pacific.

Alaska Delegation Welcomes Final Environmental Impact Statement for Willow Project

News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, issued the following statements on the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) final Environmental Impact Statement for the Willow Master Development Plan in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A).

The U.S.-Israel Energy Center Announces Funding Opportunity for Energy Infrastructure Cybersecurity Cooperation

Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the Israel Ministry of Energy, and the Israel Innovation Authority have announced a new Call for Proposals from the U.S.-Israel Center of Excellence in Energy, Engineering and Water Technology (U.S.-Israel Energy Center) for cooperation in cybersecurity. The aim of this Call for Proposals is to develop tools and technology for energy cyber and cyber-physical security for critical infrastructure.

U.S. Department of Energy Awards $5.1 Million for Advanced Nuclear Technology

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced an award of $5.1 million to the Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (EPRI) to develop modular-in-chamber electron beam welding capability for a future domestic advanced reactor demonstration project. This project has a total value of approximately $6.5 million of which DOE will provide approximately $5.1 million.

Department of Energy Announces $20 Million to Advance Perovskite Solar Technologies

News Release: This topic area will focus on research projects to advance perovskite efficiency and stability at the cell or mini-module scale beyond the current state of the art technology. Projects may include intrinsic and extrinsic approaches to improve stability, methods to understand and characterize degradation...

E&C Launches Investigation into Health and Dental Insurers

News Release: 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) sent oversight letters to nine health and dental insurance companies today seeking information on their policies and practices amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Chairman Pallone first announced the Committee investigation last week.

E&C Democrats Urge Pai to Expand Connectivity Using FCC’s Lifeline Program During COVID-19 Pandemic

News Release: Fifteen members of the Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter today to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai urging him to provide unlimited voice minutes and mobile data to Lifeline recipients, with a corresponding increase in the support amount to cover incremental costs, for...

Department of Energy Announces $20 Million to Advance Perovskite Solar Technologies

Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $20 million in funding to advance perovskite solar photovoltaic technologies. Perovskites are a family of materials with a specific crystal structure, named after the mineral with that structure. When used to create solar cells, ...

Pallone: EPA’s Final Methane Rule Defies Both Science and Human Decency