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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), delivered the following remarks at a full committee hearing to examine and consider updates to the Mining Law of 1872.

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Hanford Plant Finishes Testing Effluent Disposal System
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Hanford ’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant team recently completed startup testing of a radioactive liquid waste disposal system that will play an instrumental role during future operations to treat waste from the site’s large underground tanks.
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DOE Invests Nearly $7 Million to Put Coal Wastes to Work, Creating Products for a Clean Energy Economy
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced nearly $7 million in funding for seven projects that will develop coal-based filaments or resins for additive manufacturing and advance research and development (R&D) of coal-derived...

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Crews Crack Historic Hanford Vault to Pave Way for Cleanup Progress
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Like the gold at Fort Knox and the Hope Diamond, Hanford’s “valuables" were once housed in one of the most secure facilities in the nation. A top-secret room within a top-secret facility at the sprawling top-secret Hanford Site, a vault in the 231-Z Building protected the site’s plutonium during the first decade of national defense operations.

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Former Intern’s Passion for Environmental Justice Now Her Full-Time Focus
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Fresh from a unique internship at Oak Ridge this past summer, Sierra Generette began a new full-time position this week serving as EM cleanup contractor UCOR’s lead on environmental justice matters.

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DOE Launches First Hydrogen Business Case Prize Competition
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is kicking off a weeklong celebration of Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day, coming up on October 8, by launching the first ever Hydrogen Business Case Prize Competition. The Prize will challenge teams to develop user-friendly analysis tools that identify regional business...
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EM Leaders Tour Laboratory That Helps Create Innovations in Safe Waste Immobilization
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Members of EM leadership recently visited Catholic University’s Vitreous State Laboratory (VSL), a contributor to key innovations in the vitrification technology central to Hanford ’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) in Washington state.

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DOE Awards Over $33 Million in Grants to Washington, Oregon
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - DOE awarded four financial assistance grants, totaling approximately $33.5 million, to Oregon and Washington state last week. The non-competitive grants support environmental response regulatory activities, emergency preparedness, and public information programs related to the Hanford Site.

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West Valley Experts Detail Main Plant Demolition Safeguards in New Videos
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) and cleanup contractor CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley (CHBWV) have released two videos related to the planned demolition of the Main Plant Process Building featuring site subject-matter experts with more than 130 years of combined experience in nuclear decommissioning and environmental cleanup.

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SRS Contractor Invests More Than $1 Billion in Small, Diverse Businesses
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM’s cleanup contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has awarded subcontracts valued at more than $1 billion to small and diverse businesses locally and nationally in the past four years.

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E&C Republicans Press Sec. Blinken on Whether Wuhan Lab Had Military Ties
News Release: Washington, D.C. - 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 a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken...

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WIPP Contractor Helps Fund Student STEM Centers in Southeast New Mexico
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM’s main contractor at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) helped fund two centers for an area school district where students can stretch their imaginations while honing their science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) skills by exploring electric circuit boards, tiny robots, and other unique gadgets.
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Senate Hears from Wyoming Bentonite Producer on Mining Law
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), welcomed Mr. David Brown,
Energy
163 notices published in September by Energy Department
There were 163 notices published by the Energy Department in September, according to the Federal Register.
Energy
36 notices published in week ending Oct. 3 by Energy Department
There were 36 notices published by the Energy Department in week ending Oct. 3, according to the Federal Register.

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E&C Republican Leaders Question Progressive Groups Over Possible Ties to Chinese Communist Party
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Republican Leader for Oversight and Investigations Morgan Griffith (R-VA) are requesting information and transparency from four progressive groups about possible ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm Announces Newly Appointed Members of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board
Release: Precedent-Setting Diverse Group of Experts Will Provide Advice and Recommendations on Departmental Priorities as DOE Accelerates the Clean Energy Revolution
Energy
Final DOE Buildings Safely Come Down at ETEC Site
News Release: SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has completed safe demolition of the final DOE-owned buildings at the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC), located northwest of Los Angeles, California. Finishing the teardown of Cold War-era buildings is another important step in the Department’s cleanup activities at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL).
Energy
Proposed rule published by Energy Department on Oct. 1
The US Energy Department published a five page proposed rule on Oct. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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What did Energy Department publish on Oct. 1?
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Oct. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

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