By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) is working to protect patients from surprise medical bills. Walden has drafted bipartisan legislation with Chairman Frank Pallone to shield families across the country from these harmful, unexpected medical bills and...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 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 Wednesday, June 19, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Protecting Title X and Safeguarding Quality Family Planning Care."
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing on, “No More Surprises: Protecting Patients from Surprise Medical Bills:"
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Oversight of FERC: Ensuring Its Actions Benefit Consumers and the Environment:"
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 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 legislative hearing on Wednesday, June 19, at 10:30 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building on pipeline safety proposals. The hearing is entitled, “Legislative Solutions to Make Our Nation’s Pipelines Safer."
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM workers broke ground June 10 on two more large-scale units to provide safe and permanent storage for decontaminated waste material at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, S.C. - Engineers, scientists, and others supporting EM recently volunteered for the Savannah River Site (SRS) Science Day in partnership with the Charleston Promise Neighborhood (CPN) non-profit organization.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar and senior leaders from EM told an audience of the House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus last week that new initiatives in contracting and high level radioactive waste hold the potential to accelerate cleanup at key DOE sites.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Crews recently recovered more than a ton of mercury from an aging facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex, marking another EM project that has prevented a release of the element into the environment.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: MOAB, Utah - EM’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project recently reached a safety milestone of 1,000 workdays without a lost-time injury or illness. During that period, employees shipped 1.4 million tons of mill tailings from the Moab Site for disposal. Currently, 140 employees work...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The footprint of the Hanford Site ’s Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) is shrinking. Since beginning lower-risk demolition earlier this spring, workers with EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CHPRC) have safely removed a concrete vault and two stairwells attached to the PFP Main Processing Facility.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The Savannah River Site ’s (SRS) management and operations contractor recently acquired a probing and laser scanning device to improve personnel safety and the process of taking measurements.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - EM’s Paducah Site leaders recently met with managers from Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership (FRNP) for one of two partnering sessions scheduled for 2019.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - Workers recently tore down a facility housing a former liquid pretreatment system, bringing the total number of structures demolished in EM’s cleanup at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) Site to 62.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 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) announced today that the two subcommittees will hold a joint hearing on Thursday, June 20, on the Trump Administration’s efforts to roll back Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards and carbon pollution regulations from light duty cars and trucks.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Volunteers at the EM Hanford Site are reaching out to female students to promote the importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and careers.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 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 “Critical Mission: Former Administrators Address the Direction of the EPA."
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Critical Mission: Former Administrators Address the Direction of the EPA:"
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, released the following statement celebrating Cordova’s new battery energy storage system, and the hard work that made the system possible.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is going high-tech in its battle against heat stress.
