By DOE Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced that next week’s Health Subcommittee hearing will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 1:30 pm in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The Fiscal Year 2021 HHS Budget and Oversight of the Coronavirus Outbreak."
By DOE Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The recently completed environmental corrective actions at 70 sites where historic nuclear weapon system tests and support activities contaminated surface and shallow subsurface soil and debris. The sites are regulated by the (FFACO), a legally-binding agreement signed in 1996 that outlines...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - As EM Hanford ’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) prepares for the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) program to begin by the end of 2023, components are being sought now to support upcoming commissioning operations.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - The EM West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) commended the captain of the site’s security force in a ceremony last week for his lifesaving response to a member of the local sheriff’s office.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: After supporting the Rocky Flats Site in Colorado for a total of 22 years, Linda Kaiser retired this month. In her most recent role as the Rocky Flats contractor lead supporting the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) team, she expertly managed and facilitated all site activities, from monitoring and maintenance to safety and environmental compliance - doing what was needed to ensure the site remains protective of human health and the environment.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Oak Ridge workers building the Outfall 200 Mercury Treatment Facility recently achieved a safety milestone: zero lost workday cases and zero recordable injuries since mobilizing for the project six months ago.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - An EM Hanford Site waste tank has been repurposed in support of the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) program set to begin treating tank waste by the end of 2023.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) continued to fight for our brave first responders and to protect public safety by introducing the FIRST RESPONDER Act. This bill makes sure that our first responders have the resources needed to respond to 9-1-1 calls and that funding and technologies allocated for 9-1-1 infrastructure are used for that purpose.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $38.5 million in funding for a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program, Rapid Encapsulation of Pipelines Avoiding Intensive Replacement (REPAIR). The program will sponsor new technologies to rehabilitate cast iron and bare steel natural gas distribution pipes by creating a new pipe inside the old pipe.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $38.5 million in funding for a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program, Rapid Encapsulation of Pipelines Avoiding Intensive Replacement (REPAIR). The program will sponsor new technologies to rehabilitate cast iron and bare steel natural gas distribution pipes by creating a new pipe inside the old pipe.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - A recent DOE assessment found no deficiencies in EM’s solid waste program at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
By DOE Newswire | Feb 14, 2020
Release: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to include the U.S. Secretary of Energy as a member of the National Space Council.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced its intent to issue a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) entitled “Connected Communities.".
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and the Office of Science’s Fusion Energy Sciences program (FES), in a joint funding effort, will award up to $30 million in funding to research and develop a range of enabling technologies required for commercially attractive fusion energy.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, sent a letter this week to the chief executives of 11 major banks in response to a misguided letter that a number of their Democratic colleagues sent in late January. The delegation’s letter calls out mischaracterizations being made as part of an effort to deter investment in responsible energy production in a small part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) issued a Special Notice and Draft Performance Work Statement (PWS), Section C, for the Savannah River Site (SRS) Integrated Mission Completion Contract (IMCC).
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $50 million in crosscutting Departmental funding for programs to support fusion energy research and development.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 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 Rep. A. Donald McEachin (D-VA), a member of the Subcommittee, announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement upon the announcement of President Donald Trump’s intent to nominate and appoint Mark Menezes to be the Deputy Secretary of Energy and Douglas Benevento to be Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
