By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The EM Richland Operations Office and contractor Mission Support Alliance (MSA) are implementing measures to support pollinating insects on the Hanford Site, the result of ecological monitoring to help ensure the effects of cleanup on wildlife is minimized.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: EM plans a wide range of accomplishments in 2020, including some that have been years in the making and that promise to significantly advance the cleanup mission, EM Senior Advisor Ike White told a key stakeholder audience on Jan. 31.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Forty-three teams of middle school students from across South Carolina built large, complex tabletop models of cities with clean, safe drinking water systems for the recent Future City Regional Competition, as part of an education outreach program managed by an EM contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: MOAB, Utah - DOE recently recognized EM’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project for excellence in “green purchasing," procuring products with leading, verifiable sustainability attributes.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $25 million to promote the advancement of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) technologies and techniques. The Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), entitled Wells of Opportunity (WOO), supports research and development (R&D) that complements...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $18.8 million toward the research and development (R&D) of innovative subsurface geothermal technologies. DOE’s Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) will fund up to six projects focused on two topic areas.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has announced up to $4 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D) projects under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002190, Research for Innovative Emission Reduction Technologies Related to Coal Combustion Residuals.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The EM Nevada Program shared its Operation Clean Desert learning materials with educators at the Nevada State Science Teachers Association conference held Feb. 1 at Rancho High School in Las Vegas. The free materials, including classroom activities, recount the history of the Nevada National...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: A number of prime cleanup contractors across the EM complex exceeded annual goals for subcontracting with small businesses in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2019.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) miners recently reached a milestone when they completed a “rough cut," shaping the next area where transuranic waste will be emplaced 2,150 feet beneath the surface.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 11, at 10:00 am in the John...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement in reaction to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. Walden specifically addressed the President’s leadership on lowering health care costs and promoting America’s energy independence.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 11, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) jointly signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to partner on a new Energy Sector Pathfinder initiative. The goals of this initiative are to advance information sharing, improve training and education to understand systemic risks, and develop joint operational preparedness and response activities to cybersecurity threats.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) jointly signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to partner on a new Energy Sector Pathfinder initiative. The goals of this initiative are to advance information sharing, improve training and education to understand systemic risks, and develop joint operational preparedness and response activities to cybersecurity threats.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON. D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) jointly signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to partner on a new Energy Sector Pathfinder initiative. The goals of this initiative are to advance information sharing, improve training and education to understand systemic risks, and develop joint operational preparedness and response activities to cybersecurity threats.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Paducah Infrastructure Support Services Contract (PAD Infrastructure), located in the Paducah, Kentucky. The primary objective of this contract is to perform infrastructure services at the Paducah Site.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the American Chemistry Council (ACC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to enhance innovation in energy efficient plastics recycling and reduce waste through enhanced recovery of post-use plastics.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai informed the Committee that the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau completed its investigation into wireless carriers’ unauthorized disclosure of real-time location data...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the announcement from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of an innovative proposal, the Healthy Adult Opportunity (HAO), to modernize Medicaid.
