News and reports from the Department of Energy.

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $32 million in funding toward the research and development of new monitoring, measurement, and mitigation technologies to help detect, quantify, and reduce methane emissions across oil and natural gas producing regions of the...

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Despite Democrats’ claims that their latest budget reconciliation bill will lower prices for families, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today confirmed that the Democrats’ proposed prescription drug price controls will cause prices for new drugs to be more expensive, in response...

There was activity on four bills related to the Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Aug. 4.

News Release: Spokane, Washington - Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement on the passing of Congresswoman Jackie Walorski (R-IN):

News Release: Not everyone finds their calling, much less the opportunity to pursue it. For Jay Glascock, Director of the Office of Site Operations (OSO) at the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management’s (LM) Westminster Operations Center, it happened twice.

There are six releases scheduled to be published on Aug. 8.

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted a comment letter today in strong support of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) proposed rules to prohibit menthol as a characterizing flavor in cigarettes and to prohibit all characterizing flavors in cigars. The agency proposed the rules earlier this year to reduce the appeal of cigarettes and cigars, particularly among young people, and improve public health outcomes.

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), issued the following statement regarding the announcement by OPEC+ that it intends to increase production by 100,000 barrels daily in September, a lower amount than the increases the group announced for July and August.

Release: DOE Seeks Public Input on Expanding Manufacturing Capacity and Clean Energy Economic Opportunities to Revitalize Former Coal Communities

News Release: DOE CESER created an Energy Security Planning Resource Hub as a one-stop-shop for resources designed to support state and local government officials’ energy security planning programs. Energy security planning ensures a reliable and resilient supply of energy through efforts to identify, assess, and mitigate risks to energy infrastructure and to prepare for, respond to, and recover from events that disrupt energy supply.

There are eight releases scheduled to be published on Aug. 5.

There was activity on three bills related to the Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Aug. 3.

The deadline is Aug. 25 for applicants to submit concept papers for a $96 million funding opportunity supporting the decarbonizing of domestic transportation.

Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm issued the following statement today on President Biden’s nomination of David Crane to serve as Under Secretary for Infrastructure at the U.S. Department of Energy...

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) wrote to four major oil companies today demanding answers for how they are using their record high profits, and what - if anything - each company is doing to alleviate Americans’ pain at the pump.