By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - An early career professional is recruiting college graduates to work in EM’s cleanup at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site as a growing number of employees reach retirement age.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - EM crews recently demolished a former utility building at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP), bringing the total number of structures removed at the site to 63.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Hanford Office of River Protection (ORP) took another step forward in protecting the environment and enhancing worker safety by installing an interim surface barrier in SX Tank Farm.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Three members of the Savannah River Site (SRS) training department recently received awards for their work to certify employees in CPR and first aid who have contributed to lifesaving responses at the site and elsewhere.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected six projects to receive approximately $14.7 million in federal funding for Phase II of funding opportunity announcement (FOA), Fossil Fuel Large-Scale Pilots.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Last year American consumers were pestered with 47.8 billion robocalls. The Stopping Bad Robocalls Act was introduced by bipartisan leaders in the Energy and Commerce Committee to combat these illegal spam calls. Recently, this legislation passed out of the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology with strong bipartisan support.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today as the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals hears oral arguments in Texas v. United States, which could overturn the entirety of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and strip away health care from tens of millions of Americans...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 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 hearing on Tuesday, July 16, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building on spectrum policy. The hearing is entitled, “Our Wireless Future: Building A Comprehensive Approach to Spectrum Policy."
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, July 16, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Oversight of Federal Efforts to Combat the Spread of Illicit Fentanyl."
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos today raising concerns about fraudulent and deceptive product ratings and reviews on Amazon’s online...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 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 markup on Thursday, July 11, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The Subcommittee will markup ten bills to lower Americans’ health care and prescription drug costs.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to President Trump’s event celebrating his Administration’s environmental leadership...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a markup on Wednesday, July 10, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The Subcommittee will markup legislation to protect American families from dangerous consumer products.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after President Donald J. Trump praised the committee’s efforts from last Congress during his speech today...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, last weekend hosted Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., in Alaska, marking his first visit to the state since becoming the Ranking Member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 3, 2019
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 Friday, July 12, at 9:30 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building on oversight of the federal government’s efforts to secure the electric grid from cybersecurity risks. The hearing is entitled, “Keeping The Lights On: Addressing Cyber Threats To The Grid."
By DOE Newswire | Jul 3, 2019
News Release: Today, several House committee and subcommittee chairpersons sent a letter to the Trump Administration urging it to rescind a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) requiring information about sponsors for migrant children be shared by HHS with DHS, where the information is then used to deport a child’s family...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - Just before midnight on June 27, EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) received its 12,500th transuranic (TRU) waste shipment since operations began there in 1999.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM workers at the Savannah River Site recently cleared a path to move bundled spent nuclear fuel assemblies vertically instead of horizontally, a change to increase the efficiency of this process by 25 percent.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM workers have torn down the west end of Building 3017 at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory after more than a decade of challenges, evaluations, and repairs to the structure.
