By DOE Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - EM deactivation and decommissioning (D&D) crew members used ingenuity and lessons learned to develop a conveyor system to safely remove material containing asbestos from inside a building at the West Valley Demonstration Project.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Two prime contractors at EM’s Paducah Site were recently recognized by Kentucky’s governor for excellence in health and safety performance for the past year.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - Mark Beene started his professional driving career in 1990 and for the past 20 years has been safely transporting the nation’s defense-generated transuranic (TRU) waste to EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), logging more than a million total miles, the majority while transporting TRU waste to WIPP.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Mission Support Alliance (MSA) boosted efficiency at the Hanford Site by replacing multiple programs for required reading with one standardized, automated system.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $17 million in funding for nine energy research projects under the federal Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program. EPSCoR is designed to build capabilities in underserved regions of the country that will enable them to compete more successfully for other federal R&D funding.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - A bipartisan group of Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) today requesting a review of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) drug inspection program following a series of recent recalls of contaminated blood pressure...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Across the country 158 million Americans have health care plans sponsored by their employer or union. Some Democrats are advocating to take away millions of people’s health care plans to replace it with an expensive government-run, single-payer system. This would effectively eliminate people’s choice and raise their taxes for worse health care.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 28, 2019
News Release: A bipartisan group of Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) today requesting a review of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) drug inspection program following a series of recent recalls of contaminated blood pressure medications that were...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee to examine options for the interim and long-term storage of nuclear waste. The committee also received testimony on S. 1234, the Nuclear Waste Administration Act (NWAA), which was introduced in late April by Murkowski, Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $49.3 million in nuclear energy research, facility access, crosscutting technology development, and infrastructure awards for 58 advanced nuclear technology projects in 25 states. The awards fall under DOE’s nuclear energy programs called the Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP), the Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) program, and crosscutting research projects.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr (D-NJ) sent a detailed letter to Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Alex Azar today reminding the Secretary that the Department does not have legal authority to implement a block grant or per capita cap on the Medicaid program. The letter follows...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) discussed in an interview with Stuart Varney on Varney & Co. how bipartisan legislation, the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act, will help end the illegal phone calls that have been plaguing American consumers.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 27, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $49.3 million in nuclear energy research, facility access, crosscutting technology development, and infrastructure awards for 58 advanced nuclear technology projects in 25 states. The awards fall under DOE’s nuclear energy programs called the Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP), the Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) program, and crosscutting research projects.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, Rep. Don Young, and Gov. Michael J. Dunleavy, all R-Alaska, today released the following statement after the Department of the Interior issued new Public Land Orders (PLO) partially revoking a number of PLOs put in place in eastern interior Alaska in 1972. The Department also announced today it would partially revoke PLOs in place in the Bering Glacier area.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Energy markup on “H.R. 3432, the Safer Pipelines Act of 2019."
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
Release: Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 12 projects to receive approximately $44.5 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D) under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA), Advanced Technologies for Recovery of Unconventional Oil & Gas Resources.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it would resume the process of withdrawing the proposed determination it issued in 2014 for the Pebble mine project in southwest Alaska. The agency also announced that ...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today requesting updated information on the agency’s inspections of imported cosmetic products. Pallone’s request follows an alarming announcement from FDA that the agency has not conducted any foreign cosmetic inspections in Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 and does not intend to conduct any inspections in FY 2020.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announcement that William Wehrum is stepping down as Assistant Administrator for the EPA Office of Air and Radiation. Pallone and other Committee leaders launched an investigation in April of the Utility Air Regulatory Group (UARG):
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee markup of H.R. 3432, the Safer Pipelines Act of 2019...
