By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on “Summer Driving Dangers: Exploring Ways to Protect Drivers and Their Families:"
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris-Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after 47 Democrats - led by Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Scott Peters (D-CA) - signed a letter to Democratic leadership looking to form a bipartisan working group to solve net neutrality.
By DOE Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 10 projects to receive nearly $4 million in federal funding for strategic fossil energy and coal technology research and development (R&D) projects at U.S. colleges and universities. The projects are supported through funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0001991, University Training and Research for Fossil Energy Applications.
By DOE Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at a full Committee hearing entitled, “LIFT America: Modernizing Our Infrastructure for the Future:"
By DOE Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following opening remarks today at a full committee legislative hearing on H.R. 2741, the “Leading Infrastructure for Tomorrow’s America Act."
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM and cleanup contractor Fluor Idaho recently launched a 50-day demonstration of the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) as it treats a non-radioactive simulant that mimics waste from an underground tank farm at DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory Site.
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) is kicking off a four-part video series spotlighting the site’s environmental research. In part one, OREM explores the history and accomplishments of the DOE Oak Ridge National Laboratory ’s Aquatic Ecology Lab.
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - EM and the State and Tribal Government Working Group (STGWG) each mark 30th anniversaries this year, and they came together last week to reflect on an enduring partnership that has helped the cleanup program make informed decisions protective of people and the environment.
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - What weighs 160 tons, stands 40 feet tall, needs a barge and massive crane to transport, and will play a role in treating nuclear waste? A pair of vessels delivered recently to EM’s Hanford Office of River Protection Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP).
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Workers are making changes to reduce utility and maintenance costs for EM’s Paducah Site cleanup.
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Mission Support Alliance (MSA) recently closed the doors on an aging data center at the Hanford Site, saving EM more than $100,000 a year.
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 2019
Release: KYIV, UKRAINE – On May 20, 2019, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry led the U.S. Presidential Delegation on behalf of President Donald J. Trump to the Inauguration of His Excellency Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine. Secretary Perry was joined by U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations ...
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 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 “Improving Drug Pricing Transparency and Lowering Prices for American Consumers."
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) sent a letter to Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Subcommittee on Health Chairwoman Anna Eshoo (D-CA) reiterating their request for a hearing on the Democrats’ $32 trillion plan for a government takeover of the American health care system.
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 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 “Undermining Mercury Protections: EPA Endangers Human Health and the Environment."
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - Workers finished the last step in a demolition project by digging out and removing a concrete pad used to hold equipment for a facility that treated low-level waste at EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) Site.
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 2019
Release: KYIV, UKRAINE – The U.S. Presidential Delegation, led by U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, to the Inauguration of His Excellency Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, met on the sidelines of the inauguration with President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of the Republic ...
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Workers started demolishing the final two buildings at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) that once supported Oak Ridge’s gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment process. They are the last of the Poplar Creek facilities, the most contaminated structures remaining at the site.
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo’s (D-CA) remarks as prepared for delivery at a Health Subcommittee hearing entitled “Improving Drug Pricing Transparency and Lowering Prices for American Consumers" are enclosed below...
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee to examine opportunities to advance renewable energy and energy efficiency efforts in the United States.
