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Release: Funding For Local Governments, States, Territories, Tribes, and Households Reduce Energy Costs and Meet National Net-Zero Goals
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Manchin Applauds Addition of New Preserve Land at New River Gorge National Park and Preserve
News Release: Charleston, WV - Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and Co-Chair of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus, applauded the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve’s announcement that 45 acres of preserve land has been added to America’s newest National Park.

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Granholm: 'Projects announced today will make EVs attractive to even more drivers'
The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced $42 million for 12 projects that will strengthen the supply chain for advanced electric vehicle batteries.
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“Highlights + Senate” published by the Congressional Record on Dec. 8, 2004
“Highlights + Senate“ was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1128-D1130 on Dec. 8, 2004
Energy
Chair Rodgers: GAO Gain-of-Function Research Report Affirms Our Concerns with HHS P3CO Framework
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) offered the following statement after the Government Accountability Office issued a report titled “HHS Could Improve Oversight of Research Involving Enhanced Potential Pandemic Pathogens, " which is commonly referred to as “gain-of-function" research.

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DOE Launches New $50 Million Program to Help Communities Meet Their Clean Energy Goals
Release: ‘Clean Energy to Communities’ Program Will Connect Local Leaders with DOE’s National Laboratories to Help Communities Transition to a Clean Energy Future

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Eshelman: The IPAA 'endorses legislation put forth by House Republicans aimed at reining in the administration’s misuse of' the SPR
Jeff Eshelman, the president and CEO of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), said that the organization supports H.R. 22, the Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act.

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DOE Announces $42 Million to Develop More Affordable and Efficient Advanced Electric Vehicle Batteries in America
Release: A Dozen Selected Projects Will Develop Advanced EV Batteries that Charge Faster, Have Greater Efficiency and Resilience, and Boost Consumer Confidence Against Range Anxiety

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DOE Announces $2.3 Million for Public-Private Partnerships to Advance Fusion Energy
Release: National Labs, Private Companies Pair Up to Develop Cost-Effective, Innovative Fusion Energy Technologies

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Private ownership of former upstate New York industrial site called 'huge milestone’
An 11.2-acre vacant property in Colonie, New York, that the federal government remediated of residual radiological contamination has returned to private ownership effective Jan. 5.

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Tests demonstrate Hanford Site communications transfer line operational
Testing has been completed to demonstrate that fiber infrastructure and software are operational for a transfer line communications system between the Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant and the AP Tank Farm at the Hanford Site.

Energy
Houston-area coalition seeks hydrogen hub designation from Energy Department
HyVelocity Hub, a group including Amazon, Chevron, the Center for Houston’s Future and the University of Texas, hopes to be recognized as a regional hydrogen hub of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

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Berkeley Lab: Researchers 'have developed a new kind of heating and cooling method'
A team of researchers at Lawrence Berkeley Lab have developed a new method of heating and cooling known as ionocaloric cooling, which they believe could someday replace current vapor compression methods.

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Chair Rodgers Statement on COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signal
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a potential link between the Pfizer COVID-19 bivalent vaccine and strokes in adults over 65 years of age...

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Chair Rodgers Responds to President Biden’s Comments on Big Tech
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement in response to President Joe Biden’s Wall Street Journal Op Ed today on Big Tech...

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Energy Department seeks applicants for next phase of Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator
The U.S. Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are asking for applicants to participate in the second cohort of the Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator program.

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Energy Department joins effort to eliminate all carbon emissions from transportation by 2050
A framework developed by several federal agencies that has strategies and actions for removing all carbon emissions from transportation by 2050 has been released.

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Keller: Conference presentation ‘was a great opportunity to highlight’ work, planning at long-term disposal sites
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management’s first-time participating in the Council of State Governments Midwestern Radioactive Materials Transportation Committee in October 2022 featured a presentation on the history of the Edgemont, S.D., disposal site.

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Rodgers Named Chair of House Energy and Commerce Committee
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) released the following statement on being named Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The committee, first created in 1795, is the oldest in the House of Representatives and has broad jurisdiction over health care, energy, environment, technology, data privacy and security, broadband, and much more.

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Chair Rodgers Congratulates Kevin McCarthy on Becoming Speaker of the House
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) offered the following statement after Kevin McCarthy was elected to serve as Speaker of the House for the 118th Congress...

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