By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: An updated agenda is now available for the 2020 National Cleanup Workshop, which will take place as a virtual half-day event on Sept. 16, 2020. The workshop will feature remarks from Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar and senior DOE officials, state and local government officials, and industry leaders. They will discuss key issues facing the DOE complex in the year ahead and celebrate important progress made this year.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Several EM sites and contractors across the DOE complex were recognized last week for their efforts to purchase products that protect the environment, conserve energy, and reduce costs.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
Release: Program Will Enable Scientists to Harness DOE Supercomputers for Scientific Discovery
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement after voting to confirm Mark Menezes to be Deputy Secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE). The Senate confirmed Menezes through a bipartisan vote of 79-16.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement following the Senate confirmation of Mark W. Menezes as Deputy Secretary of Energy at the Department of Energy (DOE).
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, yesterday spoke on the Senate floor in support of the nomination of Mark Menezes to be Deputy Secretary of the Department of Energy. Murkowski spoke just before the Senate began a roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture on Menezes’ nomination. That vote was successful - 78 to 14 - and a vote on final passage is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. EDT this morning.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), and Energy and Commerce Republican Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC) wrote to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, eBay CEO Jamie Iannone, and...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Workers have successfully supplemented the Savannah River Site’s (SRS) only water source as the site prepares to achieve an EM 2020 priority: startup of the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF).
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, in a bipartisan vote of 79-16, the United States Senate confirmed Mark W. Menezes to be the Deputy Secretary of Energy. An official swearing in will take place at a later date. Prior to confirmation, Mark W. Menezes served as the Under Secretary of Energy under Secretary Dan Brouillette and former Secretary Rick Perry.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2020
News Release: DOE officials were among the more than 170 government and industry representatives who explored potential collaborations between the U.S. and Japan in a workshop held virtually last week.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 3, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the winners of the Individuals Taking Energy Action in Manufacturing (ITEAM) Prize. Launched in 2018, the ITEAM Prize recognizes individuals who have implemented creative, specific, and innovative ideas and practices that led to measurable energy savings at their manufacturing facilities.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 3, 2020
Release: Effort to Support Major Fusion Facility at DOE Princeton Laboratory
By DOE Newswire | Aug 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) wrote to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo requesting a classified briefing on TikTok and other technology companies with alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Senate yesterday unanimously approved bipartisan legislation led by Sens. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Cory Gardner, R-Colo., Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, to help communities prepare for and respond to landslides and other natural hazards.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
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 on House Democrats’ attempt to undermine the Supreme Court by blocking funding to enforce the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rule on religious and moral objections to contraceptive coverage.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $97 million in funding for 33 projects that will support high-impact technology research and development to accelerate the bioeconomy. These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $97 million in funding for 33 projects that will support high-impact technology research and development to accelerate the bioeconomy. These projects will improve the performance and lower the cost and risk of technologies that can be used to produce biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts from biomass and waste resources.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selected two projects to receive approximately $2 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development. The projects will improve coal combustion residuals management under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002190, Research for Innovative Emission Reduction Technologies Related to Coal Combustion Residuals.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 30, 2020
News Release: Named after the small, southeastern Utah town that lies a couple miles to its west, the Mexican Hat, Utah, Disposal Site - currently licensed to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) for long-term stewardship - is located on the Navajo Nation, sitting just off U.S. 163...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: University of Nevada at Reno (Reno, NV) seeks to accelerate discoveries of new, commercially-viable hidden geothermal systems in the Great Basin region (GBR) in the Western United States by combining play fairway analysis, machine learning, advanced geostatistics, and other analytical techniques into a comprehensive exploration toolkit.
