Department of Energy
Recent News About Department of Energy
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently awarded $35 million in grant funding to 158 projects across 29 states actively pursuing clean energy and climate solutions to meet the Biden-Harris Administration’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.
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U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) cleanup crews are ahead of schedule on a project to protect Idaho's Snake River Plain Aquifer after removing the final amount of buried waste at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site.
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The U.S. Department of Energy is using $20 billion of President Joe Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to fund a new office tasked with going out and demonstrating clean-energy technologies to regional economies.
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A veteran Department of Energy officer with additional experience as a journalist for the Associated Press and as a public information officer for the United Nations, will be retiring.
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The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (EM) last year continued ongoing work cleaning up more than a dozen complex sites, all while dealing with the ongoing pandemic
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently selected 21 states to receive technical assistance from the National Laboratories as they work towards improving the reliability of electric grids and developing new strategies to reduce carbon emissions.
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The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis has issued the following press release:According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data recently released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), solar, wind and other renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower) are now adding more than 2,250 MW of new generating capacity each month.
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The U.S. Department of Energy is funding over $6 million for a collaboration between two of its offices and researchers for a workforce-development project in high energy density science.
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The U.S. Department of Energy is investing tens of millions of dollars to determine the basic functions of specific plants' genes as part of its pursuit to develop sustainable sources of energy, fuel and products.
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Public input is being sought by the U.S. Department of Energy as it explores plans to create a program that ensures high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) fuel is available in the United States, according to a DOE press release.
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The Department of Energy is creating a new office intended on assisting in the Biden Administration’s climate agenda focused on creating jobs for Americans and reducing pollution.
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On Friday, December 17th, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm traveled to Sacramento, California to amplify how the historic climate investments of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and President Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda will help lower energy costs,
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The U.S. Department of the Interior’s U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) will partner to assess global, regional and national resources for geologic carbon storage
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U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg have recently signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a Joint Office of Energy and Transportation that will work towards constructing electric vehicle charging stations nationwide.
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The departments of energy and transportation are joining forces to create the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, to oversee spending of $7.5 billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law on a nationwide electric vehicle-charging network.
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For years the Snake River Plain Aquifer was considered to be unsafe as it had been a location to design, build and test nuclear reactors in 1949. After three decades of cleanup, the Department of Energy (DOE) reported that the aquifer and the DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory site are “considerably safer."
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) has awarded Pam Marks of Savannah River Site the 2020 Federal Project Director of the Year Award for her work on a first of its kind $2.3 billion nuclear facility.
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Angelita Denny is a site lead for the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) office of Legacy Management (LM) and she is proud of the work she does in areas where fellow Native Americans have resided, which often were locations of nuclear testing in the past.
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The U.S. Department of Energy announced recently it has made available $2 million to create a "traineeship" program in isotope R&D, production and processing, to be led by Texas A&M University.
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The U.S. Department of Energy announced that its Weatherization Assistance Program received an additional $18,6 million to assist low-income households improve the energy efficiency of their homes.