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This week, we at the DOE had one thing on our minds: deployment, deployment, deployment. Read more about it here.

A nonprofit that advocates for purchasing practices that improve the environment recently honored several EM sites and contractors for buying green products that are more energy efficient, less toxic, longer lasting, and easier to recycle.

With hopes for rain during monsoon season amid exceptional drought conditions, the EM Los Alamos Field Office and cleanup contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos recently activated samplers at 183 monitoring sites that collect surface water.

Workers at EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant recently reached a key milestone six weeks early by completing the foundation for a building critical to the Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System, which will be the largest containment fan system.

Employees of Mid-America Conversion Services (MCS), the maintenance and operations contractor for EM’s Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Project, recently surpassed 1 million working hours without a recordable injury or lost-time accident.

EM has installed an improved fire suppression system on a one-of-a-kind Savannah River Site (SRS) vehicle that moves high-level waste canisters.

As part the U.S. Department of Energy’s Summer of Solar, we asked Lakisha Harris about her experience moving into a solar-equipped home in Accokeek, Maryland.

As we approach the end of the MLEF Summer 2021 program, allow us to share the best moments of this year’s program.