News and reports from the Department of Energy.

House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) voted 3-2 to make it more difficult to build natural gas projects in the United States.

Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader for Oversight and Investigations Morgan Griffith (R-VA) delivered opening remarks at today’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on the mental health crisis in America.

Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following remarks in today’s Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee hearing on the mental health crisis in America.

News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - In a project that saves taxpayer money, cleanup crews refurbished a former storage facility for waste disposal operations during the teardown of the Main Plant Process Building at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP ).

News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM recently announced the expansion of its Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP ) for postdoctoral researchers.

News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - One of EM ’s two plants that convert depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6 ) to more stable compounds recently returned to conversion operations following a 20-month safety pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) spoke about the need for NTIA oversight and the critical role they play in promoting economic growth and American leadership at today’s Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing.

In a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing, Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) delivered remarks on the need to connect truly unserved areas across the country.

Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement regarding the Biden administration’s request for $30 billion.

House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement following President Biden’s remarks on the Ukraine-Russia crisis.

In an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing, Subcommittee Republican Leader David B. McKinley (R-WV) spoke about the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “Brownfields” program.

Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks in today’s Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “Brownfields” program.

House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent letters to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and former National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Francis Collins about their apparent attempts to suppress scientific debate and information about the origins of COVID-19 and how such efforts may have influenced the advice they gave the White House and policymakers in the early days of the pandemic.

U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, John Barrasso (R-WY), Ranking Member of the Committee, Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced the Department of Energy (DOE) Science for the Future Act of 2022.

Today, U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Representative David McKinley (R-WV) and Governor Jim Justice (R-WV) announced the launch of the West Virginia Hydrogen Hub Working Group to collaborate and support a strong West Virginia candidate to be chosen to develop a hydrogen hub, funded through $9.5 billion allocated to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) by the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.