News from 2023


DOE CESER Helps Fortify the Energy Sector’s Digital Supply Chain with GE Gas Power

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) today announced a collaboration with GE Gas Power to test one of the company’s critical infrastructure systems used in gas, steam, and wind applications.


DOE Awards $22.1 Million to Advance Promising Nuclear Technologies

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today awarded $22.1 million to 10 industry-led projects, including two aimed at expanding clean hydrogen production with nuclear energy and one focused on bringing a microreactor design closer to deployment. The other projects intend to tackle nuclear...


E&C Leaders Continue Bipartisan Investigation into Data Brokers' Potential Exploitation of Americans' Privacy

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans, led by Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Committee Democrats, led by Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), today wrote to the heads of data broker companies, requesting information to help the Committee protect Americans’ data...


Environment Subcommittee Chair Johnson in Hearing with EPA: “Republicans are for Energy Innovation”

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Chair Bill Johnson (R-OH) delivered the following opening statement at today’s Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Subcommittee hearing titled: “The Fiscal Year 2024 Environmental Protection Agency Budget."


Portsmouth, Paducah Kick Off Major Uranium Oxide Disposal Effort

News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - EM has successfully commenced a major disposal effort for a key uranium-enrichment byproduct with the recent arrival of 60 uranium-oxide storage cylinders by rail at a licensed facility in west Texas.


O&I Subcommittee Chair Griffith: “Too Many Rural Areas Unserved; Federal Broadband Efforts are Fragmented and Overlapping”

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) delivered the following opening remarks during today’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled “Closing the Digital Divide: Overseeing Federal Funds for Broadband Deployment."


Chair Rodgers on Broadband: “We Need to Reduce the Burdens to Deployment”

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled “Closing the Digital Divide: Overseeing Federal Funds for Broadband Deployment."


O&I Subcommittee Chair Griffith: “Too Many Rural Areas Unserved; Federal Broadband Efforts are Fragmented and Overlapping”

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) delivered the following opening remarks during today’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled “Closing the Digital Divide: Overseeing Federal Funds for Broadband Deployment."


Environment Subcommittee Chair Johnson in Hearing with EPA: “Republicans are for Energy Innovation”

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Chair Bill Johnson (R-OH) delivered the following opening statement at today’s Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Subcommittee hearing titled: “The Fiscal Year 2024 Environmental Protection Agency Budget."


Chair Rodgers Warns of EPA's Spending Surge While Americans Pay for Record Inflation

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled “Closing the Digital Divide: Overseeing Federal Funds for Broadband Deployment."


Oak Ridge Makes Former Reactor Safer as It Awaits Demolition

News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM crews are slated to take down hundreds of old, contaminated buildings at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Y-12 National Security Complex.


E&C Leaders Continue Bipartisan Investigation into Data Brokers' Potential Exploitation of Americans' Privacy

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans, led by Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Committee Democrats, led by Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), today wrote to the heads of data broker companies, requesting information to help the Committee protect Americans’ data...


Chairs Rodgers, Guthrie Statement on End of COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement as the Biden administration lifts the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency...


Energy Department discusses Combined Notice of Filings #1 on May 11

The US Energy Department published a two page notice on May 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Chair Rodgers on Drug Shortages: We Must Ensure People Can Find Lifesaving Care and Medicines

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled “Examining the Root Causes of Drug Shortages: Challenges in Pharmaceutical Drug Supply Chains."


Chair Rodgers: We Must Ensure America is Ready to Respond to Any Public Health Security Threat

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today’s Health Subcommittee hearing titled “Preparing for and Responding to Future Public Health Security Threats."


Health Subcommittee Chair Guthrie: “Public Health Security is National Security”

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) delivered the following opening statement at today’s Health Subcommittee hearing titled “Preparing for and Responding to Future Public Health Security Threats."


Chairs Rodgers, Guthrie, and Griffith Warn President Biden that Lifting Title 42 Protections will be Disastrous for Safety of Americans

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today issued the following statement as President Biden lifts Title 42 border protections...


Chairs Rodgers, Johnson Rebuke Biden’s Latest Rush-to-Green EPA Proposed Power Plant Rules Which Threaten America’s Grid and Could Leave America in the Dark

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Environment, Manufacturing, & Critical Materials Subcommittee Chair Bill Johnson (R-OH) released the following statement rebuking President Biden’s new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed power plant rules, which risk more blackouts and energy shortages for Americans.


Union Falls Hydropower, L.P.; Notice Soliciting Scoping Comments discussed on May 11 by Energy Department

The US Energy Department published a two page notice on May 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.