News from January 2022
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with Par Hawaii Refining, LLC over Clean Air Act and Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act violations at its oil refining facility on Komohana Street in Kapolei, Hawaii.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Barber Valley Development, Inc. have settled a case the agency brought after the company illegally discharged sand, gravel, and rocks into wetlands adjacent to Council Spring Creek in Boise.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a series of upcoming public listening sessions on the Draft Strategy to Reduce Lead Exposures and Disparities in U.S. Communities (Lead Strategy), so communities and stakeholders can provide their comments on the Agency’s plan.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
FERC today established a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge to address whether Rover Pipeline, LLC and parent company Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. violated the Commission’s regulations and to make factual findings on certain issues relevant to a civil penalty assessment.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
FERC today revised the index level used to determine annual changes to interstate oil pipeline rate ceilings.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
At a virtual press conference held earlier today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Regional Administrator for the Pacific Southwest, Martha Guzman, announced a $250 million Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loan to the Union Sanitary District in Union City, California.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
FERC Chairman Richard Glick appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy today to highlight the need for mandatory pipeline reliability standards, as well as to discuss the Energy Product Reliability Act (H.R. 6084).
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
Winter can be harsh, not only on our bodies but also on our budgets.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) recently licensed a new method developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to 3D print refractory materials, which are highly resistant to extreme heat and degradation.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
The U.S. nuclear industry posted some big wins in 2021 and that momentum is expected to continue this year with the implementation of the new Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will conduct comprehensive reviews of completed cleanup work at 14 National Priority List (NPL) Superfund sites, including three federal facilities, in New England this year.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a request for proposals for the fabrication and testing of a prototype eight-axle railcar to carry the nation’s spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
At today’s National Community Solar Partnership (NCSP) Annual Summit, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced several new initiatives to unlock barriers to the deployment of community solar.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
2022 marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon®, an international collegiate competition that has helped popularize renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies, while training the clean energy workforce of tomorrow.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
The ScienceCommunities of bacteria, fungi, and other microbes are key to the health and survival of their plant hosts.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
The ScienceNuclear scientists have used a powerful particle accelerator to create matter directly from collisions of light.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
The ScienceScientists can capture valuable demographic data about soil microbes with a tool called quantitative stable isotope probing (qSIP).
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
The ScienceThe goal of nuclear physics is to describe all matter from its simplest building blocks: quarks and gluons.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
The ScienceQuantum computers may be able to solve science problems that are impossible for today’s fastest conventional supercomputers.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
The ScienceTo create the conditions needed for fusion reactions, tokamak reactors contain a plasma in magnetic fields.
