By DOE Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the House of Representatives voted 230-192 in favor of passing H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act. Pallone introduced the landmark legislation earlier this year, which now advances to the Senate for consideration.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - 27 patient and consumer advocacy groups announced support for the deal reached by bicameral, bipartisan leaders to protect patients from surprise medical billing. In a statement, groups representing Americans facing serious acute, chronic health conditions, welcomed the legislation and urged Congress to act swiftly to send the package to President Trump’s desk.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL), and Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) praise the inclusion of increased environmental protections in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
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. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act, which he introduced earlier this year...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 11, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, President Donald J. Trump presided over theswearing in of Dan Brouillette to serve as the 15th U.S. Secretary of Energy. Vice President Mike Pence administered the oath of office. President Trump nominated Brouillette in November following the announcement of former Secretary Rick Perry’s resignation. He was confirmed last week by the U.S. Senate with a vote of 70-15.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM and cleanup contractor Fluor Idaho have been working with a local small business to create mock-ups of critical equipment needed to treat 900,000 gallons of liquid radioactive waste from underground tanks at DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory Site.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM and its liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) completed construction of the outer shell of the site’s second large-scale saltstone disposal unit on Dec. 6.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Cincinnati -- The Office of Environmental Management (EM) is issuing a task order for a lease for storage space as a DOE facility for the long-term management and storage of elemental mercury to address DOE’s responsibility as required by Section 5 of the Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008, as amended by...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM recently declared the first phase of closure complete for an underground waste tank central to a pilot project designed to accelerate cleanup at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - More than $900,000 in savings are expected to result from enlisting employees at a Savannah River Site (SRS) facility to help ship analytical samples between Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) locations.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) has published a notice of intent to issue a joint Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) titled “BOTTLE: Bio-Optimized Technologies to Keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment." This FOA, jointly funded...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Employees with EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CHPRC) recently marked 1 million miles of safe driving to dispose of cleanup debris at the Hanford Site ’s Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility (ERDF). Check out this video for a day in the life of an ERDF driver.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The magazine EHS Today has named EM’s Oak Ridge cleanup contractor UCOR one of America’s Safest Companies.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “Proposals to Achieve Universal Health Care Coverage:"
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Full Committee Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement after the House...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled “Securing the U.S. Drug Supply Chain: Oversight of FDA’s Foreign Inspection Program."
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - A basin that once held cooling water used in Oak Ridge’s former uranium enrichment operations is being demolished as EM works to complete cleanup at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP). Watch a video of the project here.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on ““Securing the U.S. Drug Supply Chain: Oversight of FDA’s Foreign Inspection Program:"
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Bipartisan House health leaders sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today expressing concerns over reports that the Medicare Plan Finder was confusing, generated incorrect results, and inadvertently led beneficiaries to select plans with lower premiums but higher overall costs.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee to examine the implementation of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) new global sulfur standard for marine fuels - known as “IMO 2020" - which will formally take effect on Jan. 1, 2020.
