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E&C Bipartisan Leaders Demand Online Marketplaces Divulge Efforts to Remove Harmful, Recalled Products from Platforms
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Full Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Innovation, Data, and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) wrote to Meta and other online marketplaces today requesting information regarding efforts to end the sale of banned and recalled hazardous products on their platforms.
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ICYMI: Barrasso Op-Ed: Biden’s Anti-Nuclear Move Fits His Anti-American Energy Agenda
News Release: By: U.S. Senator John Barrasso. Aug. 21, 2023. National Review. The American people want our nation to be energy-independent. They know increasing production of American energy is the best way to achieve that. President Biden is telling the American people to pound sand. According to recent polling, ...
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Thinking Like the Adversary Helps Secure Our Critical Infrastructure
News Release: When critical functions like energy transmission and delivery are too important for the safety and security of our nation to fail, these systems take every precaution to defensively prevent cyberattacks from happening. It begins by thinking like the adversary to understand what aspect of the system is...
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West Valley Safety Day: ‘We Help Each Other Stay Safe and Healthy’
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - The EM program at the West Valley Demonstration Project conducted its annual Safety Day to reinforce and highlight the importance of safety through demonstrations, hands-on activities and guest lectures. The event organizers held demonstrations on electrical safety, heat-stress monitoring...
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Paducah Site Provides 130,000 Pounds of Food to Local Agencies
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Through their DOE Feds Feed Families program, EM Paducah Site workers raised funds to purchase about 130,000 pounds of food for local nonprofits whose mission is to provide local families with reliable access to affordable, nutritious food.
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Thinking Like the Adversary Helps Secure Our Critical Infrastructure
News Release: When critical functions like energy transmission and delivery are too important for the safety and security of our nation to fail, these systems take every precaution to defensively prevent cyberattacks from happening. It begins by thinking like the adversary to understand what aspect of the system is...
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Portsmouth Site Scores Four Million Safe Work Hours
News Release: PIKE COUNTY, Ohio - Employees with Fluor-BWXT-Portsmouth (FBP), EM’s decontamination and decommissioning contractor for the Portsmouth Site, were recently treated to a luncheon, celebrating the completion of 4 million safe work hours.
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DOE Finds Energy Jobs Have Increased in Nearly Every County in America
Release: New DOE Analysis Finds Energy Jobs Increased in 95% of U.S. Counties from 2021 to 2022
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Keeping Up with Change, One Digital Record at a Time
News Release: For months, the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Legacy Management Records, Information, and Knowledge Management group has been wading through several pallets of boxes at the Morgantown Records Storage facility in Morgantown, West Virginia.
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Biden-Harris Administration Announces $48 Million In Grid Resilience Grants for States and Tribal Nations to Modernize Electric Grid
Release: President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda Provides 6th Round of Funding to States and Tribal Entities for Grid Resilience, Enhanced Delivery of Clean Energy Across America
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DOE Awards $11.7 Million to the Southeast New Mexico College
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a non-competitive financial assistance Cooperative Agreement (DE-EM0005275) to the Southeast New Mexico College (SENMC), of Carlsbad, New Mexico for educational programs that will enhance the knowledge, skills, and abilities of current Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) employees while building and training the next generation workforce for this important national cleanup resource.
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DOE Releases New Report on Anniversary of Inflation Reduction Act Detailing How POTUS' Investing in America Agenda will Strengthen U.S. Economy by 2030
Release: New Analysis Shows that Inflation Reduction Act And Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Will Save American Families up to $38 billion on Electricity Bills, Reduce Nation’s Reliance on Net Crude Oil Imports by Nearly 60%, and Could Increase Clean Electricity to 80% of America’s Grid by 2030
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Workers Train to Cut Into Hanford Underground Waste Tank
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers on the Hanford Site are preparing to cut into the dome of an underground waste-storage tank later this summer to get ready for future waste retrieval operations.
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DOE Honors Moab Project for Five Years of Excellence in ‘Green Purchases’
News Release: MOAB, Utah - DOE has awarded EM's Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project the coveted Superior GreenBuy Award, honoring the site’s efforts to reduce its footprint through environmentally friendly acquisitions over the past five years.
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DOE Awards Research Funds to Early Career Scientist at Office of Environmental Management's National Lab
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Holly Flynn, a researcher at the Office of Environmental Management's (EM’s) Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), will receive $2.5 million over five years to fund research associated with fusion energy after being selected as a DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program awardee.
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Memorandum of Understanding Supports Navajo Nation’s Energy Transition
News Release: Multi-Year, Multi-Agency Deal Seeks to Ease Tribal Access to Historic Federal Funding.
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Hanford Demolition Paves Way for Cleanup Progress Near Columbia River
News Release: Workers with EM contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company recently began demolishing the K West Annex on the Hanford Site. The annex was constructed to support the safe packaging and transfer of radioactive sludge from the K West spent-fuel basin and away from the Columbia River.
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Virtual Display Offers Interactive FUSRAP History
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management has launched an online, interactive Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program display to engage the public with FUSRAP history.
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DOE Awards $34 Million to Advance Clean Hydrogen
Release: Industry and University-Led Projects Across the Country Will Develop Technologies and Infrastructure for Efficient Hydrogen Production, Transport, and Storage
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Local Students Complete Los Alamos Apprenticeship Program
News Release: LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - Representatives of Northern New Mexico College (NNMC) and Environmental Management (EM) Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos (N3B) were on hand last week to congratulate Dominic Montaño and Milnor Branch, the most recent graduates of the N3B Nuclear Operator Apprenticeship Program (NOAP).