By DOE Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement applauding the signing into law of the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support Act of 2019 or the “AUTISM Cares Act of 2019 (H.R. 1058) :
By DOE Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the report from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) detailing the regulatory and enforcement efforts to control the diversion of opioids.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) hosted its fourth InnovationXLab Summit in Chicago, Illinois. Secretary Perry instituted the collaborative model of the InnovationXLab to connect the private sector with the Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Laboratories. Today’s Summit ...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - EM's next quarterly public forum to discuss upcoming business opportunities in the legacy nuclear cleanup program is set for Thursday, Oct. 10 in Knoxville.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Innovative solutions by employees in Oak Ridge are leading to approximately $110,000 in savings over the next five years.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The CSRA (Central Savannah River Area) College Night, which is sponsored in part by the DOE-Savannah River Operations Office, has marked its 25-year anniversary with a cumulative attendance of more than 100,000 area high school students, parents, and educators at the annual event.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The EM Nevada Program’s radioactive waste disposal crews are helping DOE make progress in legacy cleanup after fulfilling a regulatory commitment ahead of schedule and improving the efficiency of their operations at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS).
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Power is coming to the last major construction project at EM Hanford’ s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) that supports the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste program to begin treating tank waste by 2023.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM crews recently demolished a legacy research reactor built in the 1950s at DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL), using innovative tools to break down its 4.5-foot-thick concrete shield.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement after the President announced his intent to nominate James Danly to serve on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Workers at EM’s Paducah Site recently removed approximately 60,000 cubic feet of excess equipment and other things stored at the C-740 Material Yard, one of the site’s largest storage yards. This volume of material is enough to fill nearly three large houses.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of 35 projects totaling $73 million for bioenergy research and development (R&D). Funded through the DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, these projects will help reduce the price of drop-in biofuels, lower the cost of biopower, and enable high-value products from biomass or waste resources.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) is seeking further details on the Democrat plan to “achieve a 100 percent clean economy by 2050." In a letter to Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Walden requests further information on the goals of the proposal and the means to achieve those goals, and calls for bipartisan solutions to protect the economy and the environment.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar recently viewed EM’s cleanup progress at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) and received updates on the planned demolition of the site’s Main Plant Process Building, which was used to reprocess spent nuclear fuel decades ago. “This...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the net neutrality ruling from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Rep. Raul Ruiz, M.D. (D-CA) released the following joint statement today following the release of a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), which the two lawmakers requested in 2017, finding significant increases in health...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) issued the following statement today after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia vacated part of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 2017 rules that repealed net neutrality protections and opened the door for states to pass net neutrality laws...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As the one-year-anniversary approaches of the historic SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act becoming law to combat the opioid crisis, Energy and Commerce Republicans are launching a new phase into the patient brokering investigation that began last Congress.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: In celebration of National Manufacturing Day on Friday, October 4, 2019, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) invites you to attend an informational webinar about the High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) Program, hosted by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The umbrella program...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
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 legislative hearing on Wednesday, Oct. 16, to consider Pallone’s legislation to respond to the national youth tobacco epidemic.
