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The Department of Energy’s Wind Vision report assesses the potential economic and social benefits of a study scenario where U.S. wind power supplies 10% of the nation’s electrical demand by 2020, 20% by 2030, and 35% by 2050. It also outlines a roa...

In recognition of Women’s History month, the Office of Fossil Energy is spotlighting some of the many extraordinary women on our team. One of those is Ann Satsangi -- a General Engineer in the Government Affairs and Analysis group of the Clean Coal...

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory invent new foam that adsorbs oil from water, is reusable, and pulls dispersed oil from the water.

Idaho Falls, Idaho - For more than 20 years, a gigantic building – covering seven acres of land at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho site – has been the temporary storage location for hundreds of thousands of containers filled with radioactiv...

The addition of a record-setting 14.6 gigawatts (GW) of solar energy onto the grid made 2016 a historic year for solar, with a total of more than 42 GW now connected to our country’s electricity infrastructure. A new National Museum of American Histo...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) is advancing toward Vision 2020 — its goal to complete cleanup at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) by 2020 and continue transferring the remaining land to private i...

RICHLAND, Wash. – Workers are nearing completion of work at the 618-10 Burial Ground, where they removed waste from 80 vertical pipe units (VPUs)...

RICHLAND, Wash. – EM’s Richland Operations Office (RL) is making strides toward mitigating highly radioactive soil underneath the 324 Building near the Columbia River.

AIKEN, S.C. – EM is using vegetable oil as a low-cost remediation approach to accelerate chemically-contaminated groundwater cleanup at the Savannah River Site (SRS).