By DOE Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), with funding from DOE’s Wind Energy Technologies Office, works with dozens of small business across the United States to advance wind technology as a distributed energy resource through the Competitiveness Improvement...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: GOLDEN, CO - Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette announced the launch of the Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems (ARIES) platform at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). ARIES is a cutting-edge research platform that will allow NREL researchers and the scientific community to address the fundamental challenges of integrated energy systems at scale.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -The Republican Leader of the Energy and Commerce Committee, along with Republican Leaders of three Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittees, sent letters to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert R. Redfield, M.D. and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler to ask about the federal agencies’ COVID-19 surveillance efforts, including the use of wastewater as a surveillance tool.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
Release: Platform Addresses At-Scale Integration of Energy Systems
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Alyssa Renteria was a 2019 summer intern with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM). A junior at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa, she is studying global environmental science. Alyssa was chosen to present at the Arizona/NASA Space Grant Symposium held on April 18, 2020. Below she shares her experience with the presentation and how her LM internship influenced her.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - While cleanup at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) is coming to an end this year, the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) is continuing progress in another chapter of its mission at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12).
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) selected one additional project to receive approximately $1.5 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development under the second closing of funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002001.000001, Crosscutting Research for Coal-Fueled Power Plants.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Crews with EM Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site cleanup contractor Fluor Idaho recently provided their expertise to a critical sampling effort at the site required under a federal permit.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Training recently kicked off for the final class of commissioning technicians who will prepare Hanford ’s massive Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) for round-the-clock operations in the next few years to vitrify millions of gallons of radioactive tank waste.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: EM has selected Nicole Nelson-Jean to serve as EM’s associate principal deputy assistant secretary for field operations, effective at the end of this month.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar addressing concerns that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the ongoing substance use disorder (SUD) and overdose crisis in the United States, which the country has been battling...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Despite limitations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students have been interning across the EM complex this summer with the help of creativity, technology, and a desire to learn.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Two EM contractors recently earned national recognition for being leaders in safety.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar addressing concerns that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the ongoing substance use disorder (SUD) and overdose crisis in the United States, which the country...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 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 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert R. Redfield, M.D. today requesting a briefing on the concerning impacts of COVID-19 on the nation’s children and young people.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today voiced concern that Facebook’s new Oversight Board does not have the power it needs to change...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement on the White House’s announcement that it would make 100 MHz of mid-band spectrum in the 3.45-3.55 GHz band immediately available for non-federal, commercial wireless use.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Work is progressing on many fronts toward transferring 1,936 highly radioactive cesium and strontium capsules to safer, dry storage at the Hanford Site.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 11, 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) commended the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) for releasing state COVID-19 testing plans for July through December.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
Release: Projects will Advance Artificial Intelligence through Greater Data Access
