By DOE Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Four bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders wrote to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph Simons today urging increased vigilance and enforcement actions against scams as the recently signed Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act is implemented.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: Today, House and Senate Democratic health leaders strongly urged the Trump Administration to put American families first and establish a general Special Enrollment Period (SEP) so that people affected by the coronavirus pandemic can sign up for health coverage. House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Four bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders wrote to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph Simons today urging increased vigilance and enforcement actions against scams as the recently signed Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act is implemented.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 2, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, yesterday requested U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin ensure that federal loans are made available to domestic oil and gas companies being affected by both reduced global demand and oversupply from the Saudi Arabia-Russia price war. A provision in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act authorizes the Treasury Department to support businesses not traditionally eligible for federal loans.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 2, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), in partnership with NOAA, announced the 11 winners of the first “DISCOVER", stage of the Powering the Blue EconomyTM: Ocean Observing Prize.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 2, 2020
News Release: One team, one mission. That’s the motto Brian Stewart embraced when he became the Safety and Health Program manager for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) last year. Stewart, who oversees site safety for LM employees, contractors, and the public, stepped into his new...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 2, 2020
News Release: Coronavirus Pandemic Requires Aggressive Initial Attack Strategy
By DOE Newswire | Apr 2, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) sent a letter today to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai demanding the FCC reassure broadcasters that the agency will not revoke licenses for airing legally protected speech.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 2, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a solicitation to immediately make 30 million barrels of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve’s (SPR’s) oil storage capacity available to U.S. oil producers that are struggling with catastrophic financial losses due to the combined impacts ...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a $20 million investment in offshore wind energy resource characterization and technology demonstrations. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) supports offshore wind development by improving the ability to forecast energy production, and by...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today announced that $8.8 million will be distributed to Alaska communities located near or in national forests. The money, which Murkowski secured in the fiscal year 2020 budget process, will fund schools and local budget priorities.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: In March, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded the Office of Legacy Management (LM) support contract to RSI EnTech, LLC, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This is an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract under which firm-fixed-price, time and materials, and/or cost reimbursement task orders may be issued for performance nationwide.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), House Education and Labor Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA), Senate HELP Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) and Senate Finance Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) released a joint statement today condemning President Trump’s decision not to establish a special Affordable Care Act open enrollment period in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: Fourteen House Committee Chairs sent a letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Acting Director Russell Vought today requesting an immediate extension of public comment periods, hearings and meetings due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The Committee leaders asked that OMB direct agencies to extend public comment periods by at least 45 days beyond the end of the declared national emergency.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC -As Americans receive illegal robocalls during the COVID-19 outbreak, Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) and Chair Mike Doyle (D-PA) penned a bipartisan letter urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) to use the enforcement tools they were given under last year’s congressional effort to stop robocalls.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 1, 2020
Release: "Today, Secretary Brouillette and Russian Minister of Energy Alexander Novak had a productive discussion on the current volatility in global oil markets, following President Trump's March 30 phone call with Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Secretary Brouillette and Minister Novak discussed energy market ...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 1, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement in response to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) releasing its draft risk evaluation of asbestos...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 31, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) announced a $22 million funding opportunity to leverage the expertise and intellectual capital of non-federal research institutions by supporting foundational research and development (R&D) and expanded testing capacity to advance the marine energy industry.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 31, 2020
News Release: Knowing what highway passes by a sampling well, seeing how the topography of the earth changes after soil removal, and visualizing the concentration of contamination in a groundwater plume are all concepts once left up to the interpretation of black-and-white text and data in the mind of the reader.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 31, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today sent a letter urging the Department of Energy to publish timely data on oil storage capacity in the United States as a warning indicator of potential shut-in oil production. The letter is addressed to Dr. Linda Capuano, Administrator of the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
