News and reports from the Department of Energy.

News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk made his first trip to the Hanford Site on June 28, visiting a number of cleanup projects with EM Senior Advisor William “Ike" White. While in the Tri-Cities, Turk and White participated in events with area tribal leaders and the local community and toured the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL ).

The Biden administration has issued a request for information tied to the $500 million program funded by the White House’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that seeks to place clean energy demonstration projects on current or former mine lands across the country.

News Release: The Office of Indian Energy was honored and excited to attend the 2022 Reservation Economic Summit (RES) in Las Vegas, Nevada in May. We spoke with so many of you, learned a lot, and listened to your feedback on ways our office can best support tribal energy projects.

News Release: Northwest Indian College (NWIC) of Bellingham, Washington, will be awarded a grant of up to $5 million to train future scientists and engineers through EM ’s recently expanded Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP ).

News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - DOE has approved a new plan that will accelerate the disposition of spent nuclear fuel (SNF ) at the Savannah River Site (SRS) by more than 20 years and result in a savings of more than $4 billion dollars.

Release: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced yesterday that Ukraine has begun exporting electricity to the European Union using an interconnection with Romania, starting with 100 megawatts. As they increase in volume, power exports from Ukraine will diversify Europe’s energy supply in the midst of Russia’s ...

There were 114 notices published by the Energy Department in June, according to the Federal Register.

There was activity on four bills related to the Energy and Commerce Committee on July 1.

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) recently announced that Northwest Indian College (NWIC) of Bellingham, Wash., has been awarded a STEM grant of up to $5 million.

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after the Supreme Court’s ruling in West Virginia, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which affirmed that the Executive Branch cannot usurp Congress’s Article I power to write the nation’s laws.

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks in today’s Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change hearing on recycling and Democrats’ attempts to ban the manufacture of critical plastics.

There were seven press releases published by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response in June.

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today urged President Biden to halt crude oil exports to increase the domestic supply of oil available to U.S. refiners and help reduce prices at the pump here at home. In a letter today, Pallone thanked the President for his numerous efforts to address the impact of rising fuel prices on American families and urged him to restore a ban on the export of crude oil.

News Release: Washington, D.C. - In the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing today, Subcommittee Republican Leader David B. McKinley (R-WV) delivered the following opening remarks during a hearing on recycling and Democrats’ attempts to ban the manufacture of critical plastics.

There was one press release published by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) in June.