By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selected 11 projects to receive $3.3 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development. The projects will use high performance computing to address key technical challenges in U.S. manufacturing and materials development. Through DOE’s High...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: Melinda Downing has professionally walked the halls of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for years, leaving a proud record of achievement and advancement of justice and equality in federal programs and policies.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2020
News Release: U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, yesterday took to the Senate floor to outline how the energy industry has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic - and urged her colleagues to pass the American Energy Innovation Act (AEIA) to help boost the nation’s economic recovery. Murkowski’s comments followed a hearing held by ENR on Tuesday morning to discuss those impacts and hear from witnesses on how to recover from them.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a $20 million investment in the University of Tennessee (UT) to advance workforce development in emerging energy fields. DOE’s investment in UT, Tennessee’s flagship land-grant university, will expand the University’s partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) through the Oak Ridge Institute (ORI).
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, recently sent a letter urging officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to prioritize improvements to tsunami-monitoring in Prince William Sound and throughout Alaska. State officials recently announced the discovery of potential for one of the largest landslide threats in Alaska history at Barry Arm-where an unstable slope sits above a retreating glacier and could trigger a massive tsunami if released.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $65 million in nuclear energy research, cross-cutting technology development, facility access, and infrastructure awards for 93 advanced nuclear technology projects in 28 states. The awards fall under DOE’s nuclear energy programs called the Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP), the Nuclear Energy Enabling Technologies (NEET), and the Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF).
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: Much of the recent media coverage on updated National Park Service regulations for hunting and trapping in Alaska has been misleading or inaccurate-underscoring a lack of understanding that conservation and respect for wildlife are inherently Alaskan values. With restricted access to conveniences most ...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $65 million in nuclear energy research, cross-cutting technology development, facility access, and infrastructure awards for 93 advanced nuclear technology projects in 28 states. The awards fall under DOE’s nuclear energy programs called the Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP), the Nuclear Energy Enabling Technologies (NEET), and the Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF).
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski, and Congressman Don Young (all R-Alaska) yesterday sent a letter to Chairman Jerome Powell and Vice Chair Randy Quarles of the Federal Reserve, Acting U.S. Comptroller of Currency Brian Brooks, and Chairwoman Jelena McWilliams of the Federal Deposit Insurance ...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS). The NDMS is made up of thousands of responders that support local response efforts to natural disasters, large events that could yield an emergency, or other emergency situations. NDMS is managed by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a $20 million investment in the University of Tennessee (UT) to advance workforce development in emerging energy fields. DOE’s investment in UT, Tennessee’s flagship land-grant university, will expand the University’s partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) through the Oak Ridge Institute (ORI).
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS). The NDMS is made up of thousands of responders that support local response efforts to natural disasters, large events that could yield an emergency, or other emergency situations. NDMS is managed by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS) today released principles for a legislative framework to expand broadband access and digital opportunity and close the digital...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today voted in favor of the Great American Outdoors Act, which the Senate passed by a margin of 73 to 25. This conservation measure addresses deferred maintenance backlogs on federal land, including for national parks and national forests, and provides increased support for local recreational opportunities.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy awarded Navarro Research and Engineering, Inc. the new Environmental Management (EM) Nevada Environmental Program Services (EPS) contract that will provide a variety of cleanup services at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). EM competed this contract...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing titled, “Health Care Inequality: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 and the Health Care System."
By DOE Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee 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) announced today that the Communications and Technology and Consumer...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “Health Care Inequality: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 and the Health Care System:"
By DOE Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Crews recently completed the first two of nearly 40 shipments of spent nuclear fuel to a temporary storage area at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site planned for 2020, helping EM move toward meeting its commitment with the State of Idaho to transfer the material from wet to dry storage by 2023.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 11 projects to receive approximately $17 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects for carbon utilization. The projects will develop and test technologies that can utilize...
