11.20.2008 | BY GEORGE LOBSENZ
In a report that has been hotly contested by the Energy Department, the Government Accountability Office says the Bush administration largely undermined independent safety oversight of the department’s high-hazard nuclear facilities by taking away key...
11.19.2008
The Energy Department is putting the operating contract for Brookhaven National Laboratory up for bid, saying it is seeking expressions of interest from contractors interested in running the basic research facility for up to 20 years--longer than DOE’s...
11.18.2008
Wrapping up a series of awards under its regional carbon sequestration program, the Energy Department Monday awarded $66.9 million to the Big Sky Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership, the department’s seventh large-scale carbon sequestration...
11.17.2008 | BY JEFF BEATTIE
Amid deep concerns in the nuclear energy sector about the impending Obama administration, the industry’s top lobbyist—Nuclear Energy Institute President and Chief Executive Officer Frank “Skip” Bowman—resigned Friday to let the...
11.13.2008 | BY JEFF BEATTIE
In a potential straw in the wind indicating the Obama administration’s direction on a key energy initiative, a think tank run by Obama’s transition team manager released recommendations to Congress Friday effusively praising the Energy...
11.10.2008 | BY GEORGE LOBSENZ
With the end of the Bush administration approaching, the Energy Department is quietly acknowledging through word and deed that progress on nuclear cleanup at several key sites has fallen significantly behind schedule due to operational difficulties, uneven...
11.07.2008 | BY JEFF BEATTIE
In a recommendation likely to be rejected by President-elect Barack Obama, the Energy Department will release a report within days urging Congress and the incoming administration to authorize a dramatic increase in the amount of spent fuel and high-level...
11.06.2008 | BY JEFF BEATTIE
The election of Democrat Barack Obama Tuesday as the United States’ next president has launched one of Washington’s favorite parlor games—speculation about high-profile political appointments—and prompted talk that two favorites of...
11.06.2008
The Energy Department announced Wednesday that James Rispoli, assistant DOE secretary for environmental management, is resigning after a three-year run in which he sought to right several troubled nuclear cleanup projects and the department replaced key...
11.05.2008 | BY GEORGE LOBSENZ
A contractor at the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site has agreed to pay the government $2.4 million to settle allegations that the company sought to defraud DOE by failing to disclose during 2003 contract negotiations with the department that...
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