By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM workers recently completed an important project, transferring 35 cubic yards of highly radioactive sludge from the K West Reactor fuel storage basin to T Plant, located on the Hanford Site ’s central plateau, for safe interim storage.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - EM Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Todd Shrader reflected on the magnitude of the cleanup program’s past 30 years of achievements at this year's National Cleanup Workshop and emphasized the importance of building on the lessons learned from those victories as EM works to close more sites in the years ahead.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building on supply chain security and spectrum. The hearing is entitled “Legislating to Secure America’s Wireless Future."
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation that will allow New Jersey to utilize Clean Water State Revolving Funds to remove and replace the lead pipes contaminating Newark’s drinking water...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement following House passage of three bipartisan consumer safety bills...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the two subcommittees will hold a joint hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 10 am in the John D.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy has selected three projects to receive nearly $9 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects under funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002005, Advanced Subsea System Technologies to Improve Efficiency and Capabilities for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) in Offshore Wells.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: MOAB, Utah - Crews from EM’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project loaded and shipped the 10 millionth ton of uranium mill tailings to a dedicated disposal cell, a significant milestone in the 10-year-old cleanup.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) released the following statement today after the House passed three bills - by voice vote - to keep American families safe from common household dangers. The three bills were favorably reported out of both the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee and full Committee earlier this year...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) today launched a bipartisan investigation into practices of private equity firms surrounding surprise billing. In letters to KKR & Co. Inc., Blackstone Group, and Welsh, Carson, Anderson, ...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: Leaders of the Energy and Commerce and Science, Space, and Technology Committees sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler today demanding answers for the Agency’s ongoing attempts to undermine and discredit the role of science. In October of 2018, EPA disbanded...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) today launched a bipartisan investigation into practices of private equity firms surrounding surprise billing. In letters to KKR & Co. Inc., Blackstone Group, and Welsh, Carson, Anderson, & Stowe, Pallone...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 14, 2019
Release: Vienna, Austria - “The Secretary has been briefed on today’s drone attack in Saudi Arabia and stands ready to deploy resources from the Strategic Petroleum Oil Reserves (SPRO) if necessary to offset any disruptions to oil markets as a result of this act of aggression. The Secretary has also directed ...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: On Friday, September 6, 2019, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced the formal establishment of DOE’s Artificial Intelligence and Technology Office. Here is a sampling of the reaction to date.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has announced approximately $110 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D) projects under three funding opportunity announcements (FOAs). Approximately $75M is for awards selected under two FOAs announced earlier this fiscal year; $35M is for a new FOA.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
Release: Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has announced approximately $110 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D) projects under three funding opportunity announcements (FOAs). Approximately $75M is for awards selected under two FOAs announced earlier this fiscal year; $35M is for a new FOA.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
Release: On Friday, September 6, 2019, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced the formal establishment of DOE’s Artificial Intelligence and Technology Office. Here is a sampling of the reaction to date...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - 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 Friday, Sept. 20, at 9 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building on using energy...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today announced that she has accepted an honorary membership position on the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) independent, high-level Commission for Urgent Action on Energy Efficiency (Commission). The announcement was made at a brief press conference held today with Dr. Fatih Birol, IEA’s Executive Director.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) joins EM in celebrating an anniversary in 2019. Twenty years ago, the first waste shipment entered WIPP’s gates to the cheers and applause of hundreds who had gathered to celebrate the long-awaited occasion.
