By DOE Newswire | Aug 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) released a statement following the bipartisan Senate passage of the PIPES Act.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee members Rep. Greg Gianforte (R-MT), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Rep. Tom O’Halleran (D-AZ), and Rep. Raul Ruiz, M.D. (D-CA) released...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: In July 2020, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) released its review of soil samples collected in 2019 to analyze plutonium levels near the Rocky Flats Site in Colorado. Sampling - conducted by the Jefferson Parkway Authority, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and third parties - took place northwest of Denver on the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge and property east of the refuge.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 7, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today blasted Jersey Central Power and Light (JCP&L), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corporation, for its “abysmal" response to electric power outages in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Isaias. As of 4 pm yesterday, more than 289,000 people in JCP&L’s...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, this week cosponsored legislation introduced by Senator John Cornyn, R-Texas, to reaffirm the Army Corps of Engineers’ (Army Corps) Nationwide Permitting (NWP) program, including Nationwide Permit 12 (NWP-12). NWPs provide for expedited review of projects with minimal environmental impact but are threatened by a recent court ruling that could have significant economic consequences if left unaddressed.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: In April 2020, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Historian Eric Boyle transferred to the DOE Office of Legacy Management (LM) from the Office of the Executive Secretariat, so that he could capitalize on LM’s history and archives resources. We caught up with Boyle to learn more about his role across the DOE complex and the skills and experience he brings to LM.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy today announced $33 million in funding for 10 projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Rapid Encapsulation of Pipelines Avoiding Intensive Replacement (REPAIR) program. REPAIR teams will develop natural gas transmission pipeline retrofitting technology to rehabilitate existing cast iron and bare steel pipes by creating new, robust pipes inside of old ones.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
Release: JUMP into STEM , the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) online building energy-efficiency competition, is entering its third year with three new concurrent challenges open to university student submissions starting Aug. 3, 2020. Challenges will be open through Nov. 13, 2020.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a statement announcing the Energy and Commerce Committee will launch an investigation into health and dental insurance companies’ business practices following reports that many of the companies are recording record profit margins during the COVID-19 pandemic...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
News Release: Today Rep. James E. Clyburn, Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr., Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Rep. Richard E. Neal, Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, Rep. Maxine Waters, Chairwoman of the Committee on Financial Services, ...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy today announced $33 million in funding for 10 projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Rapid Encapsulation of Pipelines Avoiding Intensive Replacement (REPAIR) program. REPAIR teams will develop natural gas transmission pipeline retrofitting technology to rehabilitate existing cast iron and bare steel pipes by creating new, robust pipes inside of old ones.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) sent a second oversight letter to the Trump Administration, writing to White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: The four bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee wrote to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph Simons today urging them to work with their European counterparts...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The four bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee wrote to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph Simons today urging them to work with their...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 5, 2020
News Release: U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing to examine federal and industry efforts to improve the cybersecurity of the energy sector, including efforts to improve collaboration on various cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection initiatives.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - Exceptional progress continues at the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) in Ventura County, California with the successful demolition of seven buildings at the Radioactive Materials Handling Facility (RMHF) complex since July 21.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - EM West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) crews resumed waste disposal shipments in late July as part of cleanup efforts after the site moved into the second phase of its operations plan in response to COVID-19.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Observing COVID-19 safety protocols, workers recently started construction of concrete pads that will hold a waste pretreatment system vital to the Hanford Site cleanup mission.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM’s cleanup at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) took a major step forward with removal of the Centrifuge Complex in late July.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) is proposing mine-reclamation activities at the Burro Mines Complex located in the Slick Rock area of southwestern San Miguel County, Colorado, on DOE Uranium Lease Tract SR-13. LM has issued a draft Environmental Assessment (EA) in...
