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News Release: DOE has been increasing its STEM and workforce content at the Waste Management Symposia (WMS) year after year. With nearly 2,200 attendees at this year’s symposia in Phoenix, STEM activities reached a much wider audience. Staff from the Offices of Environmental Management (EM), Legacy Management (LM)...
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Energy Department discusses Combined Notice of Filings on March 21

The US Energy Department published a one page notice on March 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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PAMS-SC offers new grant application process starting March 23

Urban Integrated Field Labs (IFL) grant opened on March 23.
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Pallone Opening Remarks at Hearing on America's Wireless Future Frontier

Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing titled, “5G and Beyond: Exploring the Next Wireless Frontier:”
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Leader Rodgers Statement on Biden Administration Announcement for LNG Partnership with Europe

House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after the Biden administration announced a partnership with the European Union to increase American exports of liquified natural gas (LNG) to Europe.
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West Virginia Hydrogen Hub Coalition Takes Next Step To Secure Hub In West Virginia

Today, U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Representative David McKinley (R-WV) and Governor Jim Justice (R-WV) submitted the West Virginia Hydrogen Hub Working Coalition’s official response to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) first step in the process to select winning hydrogen hubs funded by the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The proposal to participate can be found here.
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Manchin, U.S. Interior Secretary Haaland Tout New River Gorge National Park And Preserve Investments March 19, 2022

Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland touted recent investments in the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve at the Canyon Rim Visitor Center.
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DOE Awards $9 Million to Tribal Communities To Enhance Energy Security And Resilience

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced nearly $9 million in funding to 13 American Indian and Alaska Native communities for 14 projects that will harness their vast undeveloped solar, hydro and geothermal energy resources, reduce or stabilize energy costs, and increase energy security and resilience on tribal lands.
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U.S. Department of Energy Awards $9 Million to Tribal Communities to Enhance Energy Security and Resilience

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced nearly $9 million in funding to 13 American Indian and Alaska Native communities for 14 projects that will harness their vast undeveloped solar, hydro and geothermal energy resources, reduce or stabilize energy costs, and increase energy security and resilience on tribal lands.
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Probing the Inner Workings of High-Fidelity Quantum Processors

The ScienceTiny quantum computing processors built from silicon have finally surpassed 99 percent fidelity in certain logic operations ("gates”).
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Searching for Mach Waves Inside a Perfect Liquid

Nuclear scientists create the hottest matter in the universe by colliding nuclei at almost the speed of light. At such high temperatures, almost a million times hotter than the Sun, nuclear matter melts into a soup of subatomic particles called quarks and gluons.
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Energy & Commerce GOP Leaders Request HHS To Confirm Legality of Tenure of Reappointed NIH Directors

“We are not aware of any public announcements of the reappointments for any current NIH institute or center directors.
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Republican Leaders Condemn Surgeon General’s Efforts to Collude with Big Tech and Censor Americans

“The Biden Administration continues to attack our fundamental right to free speech as they collude with Big Tech to carry out their censorship campaign
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Pallone Introduces Bill to Improve FDA’s Accelerated Approval Program

The Accelerated Approval Integrity Act Improves FDA’s Ability to Ensure Accelerated Approval Products Provide a Clinical Benefit to Patients
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DOE-GFO grant application closes on June 7

FY22 BETO Waste Feedstocks and Conversion R&D grant opened on March 22.
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Video: Hanford Plant ‘Banks’ on System for Waste Analysis

News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - View this video about how laboratory technicians at the Hanford Site ’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant have been building proficiency in using a system that will safely transfer samples of radioactive waste from the Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Facility to the plant’s Analytical...
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Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Contractor Supports Student Effort to Improve School Bus Safety

News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - The wheels on the bus go round and round, but soon you can see just where in town they are going.
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Beyond Surface Level: Groundwater Monitoring at Weldon Spring Site

News Release: To many, the term “freshwater" elicits images of rushing streams or wide-open glacial lakes. However, many of Earth’s freshwater needs are met by a resource that’s not as majestic or even visible at all. But as the theme of 2022 World Water Day, groundwater is getting a long overdue spotlight.
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ICYMI: Barrasso Op-Ed: We Must End American Dependence on Russian Uranium

News Release: By: U.S. Senator John Barrasso. March 20, 2022. Casper Star Tribune. After two weeks of war and a bipartisan push in Congress, President Biden finally banned imports of Russian oil, natural gas, and coal. The idea was simple: an energy superpower like America should not fund Putin’s killing machine. ...
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ICYMI: Secretary Granholm Traveled to West Virginia to Highlight Clean Energy Investments in Appalachia

Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Friday, March 18th, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm traveled to Charleston, West Virginia to highlight how the Department of Energy and the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law are supporting advancements in clean energy technology, strengthening supply chains through made-in-America manufacturing, and ensuring an equitable transition to renewable energy for Appalachian communities. 
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