By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Representative Morgan Griffith (R-VA) are renewing an investigation into the role of top opioid manufacturers in the ongoing opioid...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - An EM crew recently finished deactivating a facility at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) Site after safely removing asbestos-containing material.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders wrote to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Chad Wolf and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon today regarding their concerns over reports of increasing...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing, titled - “A Public Health Emergency: State Efforts to Curb the Opioid Crisis" - where we will be conducting oversight of states’ utilization of federal funding to combat the opioid crisis.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Senate Finance Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) today requesting assistance in conducting robust oversight of Tennessee’s pending request...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing titled, “Promoting American Innovation and Jobs: Legislation to Phase Down the Use of Hydrofluorocarbons."
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on “A Public Health Emergency: State Efforts to Curb the Opioid Crisis:"
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) issued its January edition of the Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), including for the first time energy forecasts for 2021. Notably, EIA forecasts that the United States will continue to be a net exporter of total crude oil and ...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: Two Savannah River Site (SRS) contractors recently earned 95 percent or more of award fees available to them.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today announced two staff promotions on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee (ENR): Brianne Miller to be Deputy Staff Director of Energy and Lucy Murfitt to be Deputy Staff Director of Natural Resources.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement slamming Democrats for putting politics over solutions to the country’s PFAS challenges.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) released the following statement today praising House passage of H.R. 535, the PFAS Action Act of 2019, which passed the full House of Representatives by a vote of 247-159...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
Release: Funding Will Increase Bioenergy Crop Sustainability and Resistance to Environmental Stress
By DOE Newswire | Jan 10, 2020
Release: Centers to Support National Quantum Initiative
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has announced approximately $6.3 million in federal funding for research and development projects under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002193, University Training and Research for Fossil Energy Applications.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee Markup of nine bills to reduce carbon pollution, create jobs and modernize infrastructure...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed President Trump’s decision to propose a modernization of federal environmental review and permitting processes under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1970.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at the first markup of the New Year to consider several energy bills.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor tonight during consideration of H.R. 535, the PFAS Action Act, which was favorably reported out of the Committee in November...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY, as the site for a planned major new nuclear physics research facility.
