
By DOE Newswire | May 2, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement after the Trump Administration announced $22 billion in provider relief payments. This funding was provided in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order, Securing the United States Bulk-Power System. The Executive Order authorizes U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette to work with the Cabinet and energy industry to secure America’s Bulk-Power System.
By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order, Securing the United States Bulk-Power System. The Executive Order authorizes U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette to work with the Cabinet and energy industry to secure America’s Bulk-Power System.

By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health and Oversight and Investigations subcommittees today held a bipartisan teleconference forum with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Principal Deputy Director Anne Schuchat, M.D., to discuss racial disparities in health outcomes for COVID-19 patients.

By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health and Oversight and Investigations subcommittees today held a bipartisan teleconference forum with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Principal Deputy Director Anne Schuchat, M.D., to discuss racial disparities in health outcomes for COVID-19 patients.
By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: Today, Chairs of the House Committees that oversee the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) voiced their strong opposition to a harmful Trump Administration rule that would roll back Affordable Care Act (ACA) nondiscrimination protections. In a letter, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman...

By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order, Securing the United States Bulk-Power System. The Executive Order authorizes U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette to work with the Cabinet and energy industry to secure America’s Bulk-Power System.
By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement on President Trump’s Executive Order to secure the United States Bulk-Power System (BPS).

By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Carlsbad - Today, the Office of Environmental Management (EM), Carlsbad Field Office is renewing a financial assistance grant to the Regents of New Mexico State University (NMSU), a Public/State Controlled Institution of Higher Education. The project value is $14,470,270 million, with a 5-year project...

By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: The Defense-Related Uranium Mines (DRUM) Program of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management works closely with numerous federal and state agencies across the country, including the Utah Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program (AMRP) and Utah State Office of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee members held a bipartisan teleconference forum with National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., today on the ongoing response to the coronavirus pandemic.

By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee members held a bipartisan teleconference forum with National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., today on the ongoing response to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: "As recently highlighted in the Nuclear Fuel Working Group report, nuclear power is a crucial component of our energy infrastructure that provides reliable, clean energy to our grid. It is disappointing to see Indian Point Unit 2 shut down 4 years prior to its operating license expiring. The power plant...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee 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 urged Health and Human Service (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar to develop a national COVID-19 contact tracing strategy and stressed the need to increase the nation’s contact tracing capacity. The Committee leaders made their request today in a letter to Azar.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr., Chairman of the Energy & Commerce Committee, and Congressman James E. Clyburn, House Majority Whip and Chairman of the House Democratic Rural Broadband Task Force, along with 10 members of the Rural Broadband Task Force and Energy & Commerce Committee, ...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) environmental cleanup program has reached a significant milestone in its legacy cleanup mission at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), completing approximately half of the planned groundwater characterization activities.

By DOE Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced the opening of the American-Made Geothermal Manufacturing Prize (Geothermal Prize). Designed to spur innovation and address manufacturing challenges fundamental to operating in harsh geothermal environments, this prize further supports the ability of the...

By DOE Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement on a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) detailing recommendations to the federal government for better determining the magnitude and reducing the impact of antibiotic resistance...

By DOE Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) released the following statement...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the launch of the $9 million American-Made Challenges: Solar Desalination Prize, a competition to accelerate the development of systems that use solar-thermal energy to produce clean water from very-high-salinity water.