By DOE Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, June 12, at 10:30 am in 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) commissioners. The hearing is entitled, “Oversight of FERC: Ensuring Its Actions Benefit Consumers and the Environment."
By DOE Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on the Trump Administration’s announcement imposing restrictions on fetal tissue research...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today announced the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved the final installation and operation of a river marine renewable energy (MRE) project in Igiugig, Alaska, under a pilot permit.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - While useful in small amounts to scan and diagnose thyroid disease, a radioactive chemical called pertechnetate is a bad actor when it’s in nuclear waste tanks.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - To keep up with all he has learned since joining the EM Richland Operations Office (RL), Sean Madderom has a 37-page-and-counting document filled with acronyms.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee to examine opportunities for the expanded deployment of grid-scale energy storage.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractor UCOR recently removed the Building K-29 slab, a significant step in the cleanup and transformation of the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP).
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The Volpentest Hazardous Materials Management and Emergency Response (HAMMER) Federal Training Center, managed by EM contractor Mission Support Alliance, recently trained 2,494 Hanford Site workers over 67 instructional days.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM workers at the Savannah River Site have safely shipped a nuclear waste tank trailer for disposal.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement after the Department of Commerce released a report with 61 recommendations to rebuild the United States’ critical minerals supply chain.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - How can a third-grader lift a zebra? How do you calculate what it takes to feed a tiger? What is the science behind how a bird sings? What are the geometric shapes found in a penguin?
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) released the third of its four-part video series spotlighting the site’s environmental research. This segment explores how the OREM is funding research to understand and remediate the complex element of mercury.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) released the following joint statement after the House of Representatives passed S. 1379, the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act (PAHPAI) of 2019, earlier today...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement following new reports that last year, 37 migrant children, ages 5 to 12, were left in vans overnight as they waited to be reunited with families at Port Isabel Detention Center, Texas.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $75 million in funding for 66 university research awards on a range of topics in high energy physics to advance knowledge of how the universe works at its most fundamental level.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “Investing in America’s Health Care:"
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 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 Health hearing on “Investing in America’s Health Care."
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers recently performed a series of precision crane lifts to safely place and assemble a 111-ton electrical powerhouse for the Effluent Management Facility (EMF) at EM’s Office of River Protection (ORP) Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP).
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, June 11, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) made the following statement on the passage of S. 1379, the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act (PAHPA). The bill now heads to the President’s desk to be signed into law...
