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Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) intends to make approximately $122 million available, through a competitive process, to establish coal products innovation centers. The innovation centers will focus on manufacturing value-added, carbon-based products from coal, as well developing new methods to extract and process rare earth elements and critical minerals from coal.

Pallone Requests State Testing Plans from HHS Required by Law

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) wrote to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar to request that he provide Congress the state testing plans that the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act required to be submitted to HHS.

Democratic Health Leaders: New Data Suggests Trump Administration Failing to Protect Uninsured and Underinsured Americans

News Release: After ignoring numerous calls from bicameral Democratic health committee leaders to create a broad special enrollment period and release data on health care enrollment trends, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finally released limited data yesterday. In response, House Energy and Commerce...

Committee Leaders Raise Questions After Abrupt Termination of Federal Coronavirus Research Grant

News Release: Today, leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee and Science, Space, and Technology Committee sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar expressing concerns about the Trump Administration’s termination of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant awarded...

Delegation Welcomes Final Environmental Impact Statement on NPR-A Integrated Activity Plan

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) published the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for an updated Integrated Activity Plan (IAP) for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A). The final EIS will be followed by a record of decision that will guide management of the NPR-A.

Alaska Native Vietnam War-Era Veterans Are One Step Closer to Being Able to Apply for Land Allotments

News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, today welcomed the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) announcement of proposed rules that will allow more than 1,000 Alaska Native Vietnam War-era veterans to apply for land allotments of up to 160 acres of land. This is a key ...

20 Senators: Defense Authorization Bill Should Include Advanced Nuclear

News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Cory Booker, D-N.J., recently led a bipartisan group of 20 Senators in sending a letter to urge the inclusion of S. 903, the Nuclear Energy Leadership Act (NELA), within S. 4049, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2021.

Committee Leaders Submit Comment on EPA’s Proposed Rule on the Review of the National Ambient Air Quality for Particulate Matter

News Release: Today, leaders of the Energy and Commerce and Science, Space, and Technology Committees submitted a comment to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler for the proposed rule on the Review of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Particulate Matter (PM), ...

Pallone on New GAO Report on Trump Administration’s COVID-19 Response

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement on the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) new report on opportunities to improve the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic...

E&C Investigation Finds Millions of Americans Enrolled in Junk Health Insurance Plans that Are Bad for Consumers & Fly Under the Radar of State Regulators

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 released a report on the Committee’s year-long investigation into the anti-consumer practices of Short-Term, Limited Duration Insurance (STLDI) health care plans and the insurance brokers who sell and sign people up for these junk plans.

E&C GOP Leaders Unveil Bills to Close Digital Divide

News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) unveiled a comprehensive package of 26 bills that aim to streamline the deployment of broadband infrastructure. These bills, spearheaded...

Former LM Intern Pursues Career in Environmental Justice

News Release: Ki’Ana Speights, a former U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) summer intern, reflects on what environmental justice means to her. Speights graduated in May from Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, with a major in environmental science and a minor in social justice.

Murkowski: Mineral Supply Chains Critical to Energy – and Health, Economy, and Security

By DOE Newswire | Jun 24, 2020

News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mineral supply chains, the role of those supply chains in economic and national security, and the challenges America faces in rebuilding them. This is the committee’s ninth hearing on the importance of minerals to supply chains during Murkowski’s time as Chairman and Ranking Member.

Health Committee Chairs Unveil Legislative Package to Make Health Care & Prescription Drugs More Affordable

By DOE Newswire | Jun 24, 2020

News Release: As Americans face both the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting severe economic downturn, Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Education and Labor Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA) today unveiled The Patient Protection and Affordable...

Doyle and Schakowsky Opening Remarks at Hearing on Disinformation Online

By DOE Newswire | Jun 24, 2020

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) opening remarks as prepared for delivery at a joint subcommittee hearing on “A Country in Crisis: How Disinformation Online is Dividing the Nation:"

WIPP’s Nuclear Waste Partnership Earns 83 Percent of Available Award Fee in FY19

News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM’s Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO) recently released the fiscal 2019 fee determination for Nuclear Waste Partnership (NWP), the management-and-operations contractor for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. In total, NWP earned approximately $14.3 million, representing 83 percent of the total...

Outage Accomplishments Improve Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Operations

News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) workers completed an immense amount of work during a two-day planned power outage that occurred while the site operated in an essential mission-critical posture due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cleanup Program on Pace for Many 2020 Priorities, EM’s Todd Shrader Tells ECA

News Release: Despite unavoidable impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, EM remains on track this year to realize a number of its cleanup priorities, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Todd Shrader told leaders of the Energy Communities Alliance (ECA) during its board meeting held virtually on June 18.

Mathematics and Statistics Drive LM’s Work in Assessing Abandoned Defense-Related Uranium Mine Risk

News Release: For the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management (LM) Defense-Related Uranium Mines (DRUM) team, mathematics and statistics are at the core of protecting human health and the environment.

California State University Maritime Academy and James Madison University Claim Top Awards in First Virtual Collegiate Wind Competition