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News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers with EM Richland Operations Office contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) are making progress preparing the Hanford Site ’s K West Reactor spent-fuel storage basin for draining and demolition.
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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), today announced $2.52 billion in funding for two carbon management programs to catalyze investments in transformative carbon capture systems and carbon transport and storage technologies. Funded by President...
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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), today announced funding to accelerate the creation of zero-emission vehicle corridors that expand the nation’s electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. The Department has awarded $7.4 million to seven...
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News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Workers have removed materials such as oils, combustibles and environmental hazards from the C-333-A Feed Vaporization Facility at EM ’s Paducah Site as part of recent actions to prepare the building and its adjoining process gas building for future demolition.
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement renewing calls for permitting reform in order to unleash American innovation and chips.
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The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Feb. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) awarded a Task Order to Professional Project Services, Inc of Oak Ridge, Tennessee for the new Technical Support Services Contract (TSSC), to be performed at the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, at the inaugural Floating Offshore Wind Shot™ Summit, the Departments of Energy, the Interior, Commerce, and Transportation convened federal, state, Tribal, labor, industry, and community leaders to discuss significant progress toward development of floating offshore wind in the United States.
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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) celebrated the groundbreaking of its Generation 3 concentrating solar-thermal pilot facility at Sandia National Laboratories. This demonstration is the culmination of a $100 million research effort to develop next-generation concentrating solar-thermal...
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) and Energy, Climate, and Grid Security Subcommittee Chair Jeff Duncan (R-SC) today announced a subcommittee markup on nine pieces of legislation.
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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $48 million in funding to support a new program focused on developing power grid technologies that improve control and protection of the domestic power grid. Modernizing the nation’s grid infrastructure with improved efficiency and...
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News Release: Charleston, WV - Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, applauded the cooperation between West Virginia and Form Energy Inc., to site Form Energy’s first iron-air battery manufacturing plant in Weirton, West Virginia. The manufacturing plant, utilizing incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), will support 750 full-time jobs and help to bring new opportunity to West Virginia.
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Release: Funded Projects will Develop New Technologies that Minimize Power Grid Failures and Outages, Streamline Cost-Efficient Grid Operations Across the Country
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement renewing calls for permitting reform in order to unleash American innovation and chips.
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The US Energy Department published a three page notice on Feb. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the Department released a Final Request for Proposal (RFP) for a new Hanford Site Occupational Medical Services contract to provide continued occupational medical services to federal and contractor employees at the Hanford Site, located near Richland, Washington. The new contract adds occupational medical services to employees at Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, supporting direct-feed low-activity waste operations.
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News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Three Savannah River Site (SRS) contractors recently collaborated to welcome their first joint cohort of apprentices as part of the Nuclear Fundamentals Program, which will provide over 100 trained operators to the site upon its completion.
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News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Office of River Protection tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) and subcontractor Atkins are making progress in their preparations to provide replacement melters for the Direct-Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW ) Program to treat tank waste at the Hanford Site.
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Medicare coverage for novel drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease will continue to be restricted by the Biden administration’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency announced this week, despite numerous bipartisan requests to reconsider. Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) issued the following statement condemning the announcement...
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News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - EM recently added two security police officers to its protective force at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) after the pair completed a seven-week security training course at DOE’s National Training Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.