By DOE Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced up to $28 million in funding for a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program, ULtrahigh Temperature Impervious Materials Advancing Turbine Efficiency (ULTIMATE). The ULTIMATE program will develop and demonstrate ultrahigh ...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 20, 2020
News Release: LM is committed to supporting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education with exciting programs, hands-on tools, and expertly prepared resources to enhance education about LM sites - past, present, and future.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 20, 2020
News Release: U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, Senator Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Young, all R-Alaska, today sent a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue requesting that he allow Resource Advisory Committees (RACs) to meet virtually on an expedited timeline during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 20, 2020
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 demanded answers from Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Federal Emergency Management Agency...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 20, 2020
Release: LM is committed to supporting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education with exciting programs, hands-on tools, and expertly prepared resources to enhance education about LM sites — past, present, and future.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 20, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to provide $12 million for research in Quantum Information Science (QIS) for fusion energy and plasma science.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 20, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx today calling on the Trump Administration to develop a widespread COVID-19 testing strategy as part of its efforts to reopen the economy. In the letter, Pallone raises serious concerns...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 17, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today in response to recent reports of personnel and potential policy changes in the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR):
By DOE Newswire | Apr 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) questioned officials from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) about ongoing efforts to expand COVID-19 testing capacity around the country. Walden, a member of President Trump’s bipartisan task force on reopening the economy, raised the issue with HHS officials during a teleconference this afternoon.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 17, 2020
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar urging the Administration to immediately reverse its fetal tissue restrictions for any current or future federally supported COVID-19-related research.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allow emergency responders and utilities to continue to have priority usage of the 6 Gigahertz (GHz) spectrum band.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a Request for Information (RFI)/Sources Sought notice for operation of the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) Direct Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) facilities at the Hanford site in Washington State.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) issued the following statement today after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is not “appropriate and necessary" to regulate hazardous air pollutants such as mercury from coal- and oil-fired power plants - reversing a 2016 EPA determination...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) reacts to the Paycheck Protection Program running out of funding and being appointed to the bipartisan task force to advise on opening the U.S. economy...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: An estimated 7,500 students have participated in STEM-sation events on the Navajo Nation since the first event rolled out at Shiprock High School in New Mexico in spring of 2018, according to Nathan Tohtsoni, one of the event’s key organizers and an education coordinator for Navajo Transitional Energy Company (NTEC).
By DOE Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) wrote to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today urging the agency to immediately release demographic data on the health outcomes of COVID-19 based on race, ethnicity and gender.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it will allow timber operators to request up to two years’ extension on certain timber harvest contracts with the Forest Service. In Alaska, the USDA will allow contractors to request up to three years’ extension in light of the impacts of China’s retaliatory tariffs on Alaska spruce exports.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 14, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide up to $18 million for basic research aimed at helping to ensure the continued availability of rare earth elements-or effective substitutes-critical to the functioning of the modern U.S. economy.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 14, 2020
News Release: Program leads from the U.S Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) met with the San Miguel County, Colorado, Board of County Commissioners via videoconference on April 1 to address questions regarding the Uranium Leasing Program (ULP), the Defense-Related Uranium Mines (DRUM) Program, and a planned reclamation project for the Burro Mines Complex in relation to San Miguel County.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced more than $5 million in awards through the Office of Nuclear Energy’s Integrated University Program. The program offers undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships to students pursuing nuclear engineering degrees and other nuclear science and engineering programs relevant to nuclear energy. The awards include 42 scholarships and 34 fellowships for students at 32 U.S. colleges and universities.
