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News Release: Energy Department Announces Notice of Intent to Issue a Funding Opportunity for the High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation Program.

#ForwardWithSUPPORT ➡ The Fight Against the Opioid Crisis Continues, Congress Can Do More

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today marks the one-year anniversary of the signing into law of the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act - a bipartisan response to the nation’s opioid crisis that has been called the most significant congressional effort against a single drug crisis in history.

DOE Selects 49 U.S. Graduate Students To Pursue Research At DOE Laboratories

Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science has selected 49 graduate students from across the nation for its 2019 Solicitation 1 cycle for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program.

DOE and USDA Join Forces to Increase Energy Technology Development and Deployment in Rural America

Release: WASHINGTION, DC – U.S. Under Secretary of Energy Mark W. Menezes and Deputy Under Secretary Donald LaVoy today announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two departments to promote rural energy and the development of technologies that will support and advance rural and agricultural communities and domestic manufacturing.

Murkowski, Manchin Introduce “Hot” New Bill to Advance Geothermal R&D

News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., yesterday introduced bipartisan legislation to accelerate geothermal energy development in the United States.

Pallone Opening Remarks at Oversight Hearing with CMS Administrator Verma

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at an Oversight and Investigations hearing on “Sabotage: The Trump Administration's Attack on Health Care:"

Health Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on Global Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Safeguarding Pharmaceutical Supply Chains in a Global Economy."

Pallone Remarks at Hearing on Building 100 Percent Clean Economy for Planes, Trains and Everything Beyond Automobiles

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Solutions for Planes, Trains and Everything Beyond Automobiles." This is the fourth hearing in a series of climate change hearings aimed at achieving the Committee’s goal of a 100 percent clean economy by 2050...

Walden Remarks at Hearing on Exploring Cleaner Energy Solutions in Transportation

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at hearing discussing ways to reduce emissions from the U.S. transportation system at a Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change hearing titled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Solutions for Planes, Trains and Everything Beyond Automobiles."

Energy Subcommittee Announces Hearing on Decarbonizing the U.S. Power Sector

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building on how to achieve net zero greenhouse gas pollution within the power sector. The hearing is entitled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Solutions for the U.S. Power Sector."

SRS Contractor Rewards Employees Through New Innovative Application

News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Engineers with EM’s liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have developed and implemented new technology to recognize and reward employees promptly for positive behaviors, actions, and attitudes.

EM Nevada Program Expects Office Move to Save At Least $3.2 Million

News Release: LAS VEGAS - All 97 employees of the and environmental program services contractor Navarro recently relocated to an energy-efficient office building, saving an estimated $3.2 million or more over the next 10 years and shrinking their workplace footprint by 25,000 square feet.

Hanford’s Waste Treatment Plant Night Shift Key to Success

News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Even when the sun sets each day on the EM Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) jobsite, workers continue moving the project forward on its path to treating tank waste.

EM’s Highest Priority Project at Oak Ridge Lab Gains Momentum

News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Workers have begun processing a powder form of uranium-233 a year ahead of schedule as part of a larger EM project to safely process and dispose of the remaining inventory of the nuclear material stored at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

West Valley Protects Environment With Erosion Control Measures

News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - Workers helped safeguard the environment at EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) Site by safely installing interlocking concrete blocks to prevent soil erosion at an inactive disposal area closed years ago.

Cleanup, Restoration Alter Oak Ridge Landscape

News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - It once housed a sanitary sewage treatment facility, but now the K-1203 complex site at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) is an open field sown with grass seed. Its remediation and aesthetic transformation moves the site closer to EM’s. Watch a video about the project here.

Portsmouth Site Welcomes 32 High Schools to Science Alliance Event

News Release: PIKE COUNTY, Ohio - EM is on the lookout for students like high school junior Brooke Childers, who recently attended the Science Alliance at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant site.

Walden, Shimkus, Upton Statement on GAO Recommendations for DOE Cleanup Efforts