By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on “Protecting Title X and Safeguarding Quality Family Planning Care:"
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), and Environment and Climate Change Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) sent letters today to Marathon Petroleum and oil industry lobbying and policy organizations requesting information...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 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 Oversight and Investigations hearing on “Protecting Title X and Safeguarding Quality Family Planning Care."
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: On June 10, approximately 35 visitors - including members of the Rocky Flats Stewardship Council (RFSC), Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), and U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management (LM) - toured the Rocky Flats Site, Colorado. Hosted by LM, the event is conducted...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: In 2016, the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington, lost 18,000 acres and 14 homes to a wildfire. It also burned 80 power poles on the Spokane Indian Tribe’s transmission line and cut power to the water pumps, leaving its members without power and water for a week-prompting an awakening within the Tribe.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released their final “Affordable Clean Energy" rule, the Trump Administration’s plan to replace the Clean Power Plan...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee legislative hearing entitled, “Legislative Solutions to Make Our Nation’s Pipelines Safer:"
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - There’s so much infrastructure work happening at EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), the view literally changes daily.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee to examine deferred maintenance needs and potential solutions on federal lands administered by the three major land management agencies within the Department of the Interior-the National Park Service (NPS), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the U.S. Fish and Wildfire Service (FWS)-as well as the USDA Forest Service (FS).
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: Today, METI, ENER and DOE affirmed their shared desire to strengthen trilateral cooperation on hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - EM recently transferred ownership of more than 300,000 gallons of electrical insulating oil to the Paducah Area Community Reuse Organization (PACRO) from the Paducah Site’s C-533 Switchyard.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Thirty years ago, Eric Mickelsen, then a young journeyman bricklayer, completed a radiation protection program course at a vocational-technical school where he was laying brick and was quickly hired as a junior radiological control technician at the Hanford Site.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Cleanup of the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) gained headway with the completion of demolition of the K-1037 Building recently - the largest and one of the most challenging facilities still standing there. Watch a video of the demolition here.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today released the following statement after President Trump formally nominated seven individuals to serve on the Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB) for Puerto Rico. All seven currently serve on the Board, but are subject to Senate confirmation in the wake of a recent court decision.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: PIKETON, Ohio - RSI EnTech (RSI), the environmental technical services contractor at the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, recently marked 10 injury-free years. That’s more than 1.25 million work hours without a recordable illness or injury among the 60 employees at the site, according to RSI...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The DOE Savannah River Operations Office and management and operations contractor Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) have partnered to foster five small businesses in the Department’s Mentor-Protégé Program.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Two U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories continue to house the fastest supercomputers in the world, according to the new TOP500 List, a semiannual ranking of the world’s fastest computing systems.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM recently awarded its Oak Ridge Site cleanup contractor $12.5 million for its performance from Oct. 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019, amounting to 95 percent of the available fee.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - For the third consecutive time, Hanford ’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) has earned DOE’s highest certification for excellence in occupational and health protection.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
Release: Today, METI, ENER and DOE affirmed their shared desire to strengthen trilateral cooperation on hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.
