Category: DOE

Biden Admin Moving Ahead With Ban on Incandescent Lightbulbs

The U.S. Department of Energy plans to phase incandescent lightbulbs out of use in favor of compact fluorescent and light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs. Last April, the DOE announced revised efficiency standards for lamps that would require the gradual phasing out of the traditional incandescent lightbulbs, which have been used to light homes since the late…


Proposed GOP Legislation to Block Gas Stove Ban Supported by Industry

Republican members of Congress have proposed legislation to preemptively block any proposed rules to ban or heavily restrict gas ovens being sold in the United States by Biden administration officials in the U.S. Department of Energy. The legislation comes as the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) made a formal request for information about the health…


LIVE NOW: Energy Secretary Announces Major Breakthrough on Fusion Energy

U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Administrator Jill Hruby will announce a major scientific breakthrough at 10 a.m., on Dec. 13, accomplished by researchers at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). White House Office of Science and Technology Policy…


Energy Secretary Announces Major Breakthrough on Fusion Energy

U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Administrator Jill Hruby will announce a major scientific breakthrough at 10 a.m., on Dec. 13, accomplished by researchers at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). White House Office of Science and Technology Policy…


LIVE December 13, 10 AM ET: Secretary Granholm Announces Major Scientific Breakthrough

U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Administrator Jill Hruby will announce a major scientific breakthrough at 10 a.m., on Dec. 13, accomplished by researchers at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). White House Office of Science and Technology Policy…


LIVE December 13, 10 AM ET: Energy Secretary Announces Major Scientific Breakthrough

U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Administrator Jill Hruby will announce a major scientific breakthrough at 10 a.m., on Dec. 13, accomplished by researchers at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). White House Office of Science and Technology Policy…


DOE Funding CCP-Linked Company ‘Endangers Our National Security’: Barrasso

The Department of Energy is under fire for allegedly undermining U.S. national security by giving hundreds of millions of dollars to a company with ties to the Chinese Communist Party. At the heart of the controversy is the DOE’s decision to award $200 million to Microvast Holdings, a U.S.-based lithium battery company that does most…


Movement to Abolish the Education Department, Decades in the Making, Lives On

The very day Congress confirmed Betsy DeVos as the Secretary of Education in early 2017, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) introduced a bill that would dismantle the federal agency she was about to head. “The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2018,” the one-sentence bill read. Five years later, Massie still believes that the…