Department of Energy
Recent News About Department of Energy
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The U.S. Department of Energy offered $45 million in competitive grants to help states and organizations modernize building energy codes to lower energy bills.
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The U.S. Department of Energy recently vacated the 1954 decision by the Atomic Energy Commission to revoke J. Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance.
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently announced the state reached a record number of 165,000 workers in green economy jobs last year.
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The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (RENEW) initiative will fund $32 million in 41 awards to 37 institutions to support historically underrepresented groups in STEM, known as science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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The U.S. Department of Energy will provide funding of more than $15 million for projects in Colorado and California that will demonstrate drilling innovations and help reduce renewable geothermal energy costs.
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The U.S. Department of Energy launched four programs that will promote the carbon dioxide removal industry in the United States.
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The U.S. Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office announced the closing of a $2.5 billion loan for new lithium-ion battery cell manufacturing facilities.
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The U.S. Department of Energy will fund $8 million for six solar energy research projects across six states and the District of Columbia that support agricultural production and solar energy generation on the same land.
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), with the support of the Biden-Harris administration, has proposed a new rule requiring all newly constructed or renovated federal facilities to reduce their emissions from 2025 onward, according to Energy.gov.
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The Biden-Harris administration announced Dec. 6 it intends to invest as much as $72 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to expand the Industrial Assessment Centers (IAC) program and create Building Training Assessment Centers (BTAC).
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U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez to guarantee that the Biden-Harris administration’s clean energy agenda is “equitable, just and inclusive of Tribal Nation partners.”
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The Biden-Harris administration and the U.S. Department of Energy recently announced steps to both electrify and cut the amount of emissions from new or newly renovated federal buildings.
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Following what Department of Homeland Security officials have called a “deliberate” attack on a power substation, Moore County, North Carolina, recently declared a state of emergency after power outages in the area that were caused by gunfire.
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The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management installed an interpretive sign at the Pre-Schooner II Site where the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission conducted a non-nuclear cratering experiment.
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A University of Maryland professor's wood replacement product that's stronger than steel scored a $20 million grant last week for development expansion.
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The first completely bio-based 3D-printed home has been created by the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC).
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The U.S. Department of Energy announced that applications are open for the Renew America's Schools grant program.
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U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm outlined to attendees of the 27th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, how the U.S. Department of Energy is America’s “Solutions Agency” through its Energy Earthshots Initiative.
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Applications for funding through a U.S. Department of Energy program that supports community-based clean energy will open in January 2023.
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Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm recently announced a partnership with a Maryland-based company aimed at increasing domestic production of high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU), which is used in nuclear reactors.