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Six U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) sites are among a group of award winners who collectively cut greenhouse gas emissions last year by more than 565,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, which equates to taking 121,000 average U.S. passenger cars off the road for a year.

EM is draining the last large concrete basin at the Hanford Site.

Stakeholders from eight cleanup sites recently met for the biannual two-day Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB) National Chairs meeting in Chillicothe, Ohio, where they heard about progress across the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) complex from EM leadership.

The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor UCOR have completed the first phase of construction for the Environmental Management Disposal Facility (EMDF).

More than 100 in-person and virtual attendees gathered at a recent Environmental Management Cleanup Forum to hear leadership from the Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) discuss a mutual initiative for a hexavalent chromium groundwater plume beneath the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

A partnership with a local economic development organization has provided qualified personnel to support the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management program at the Savannah River Site (SRS) since 2020.

Community members gathered at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) on April 6 for a public site tour, the final event of the 2024 Groundwater University series.

While conducting aerial surveys over bald eagle nesting areas on Savannah River Site (SRS), a U.S. Forest Service wildlife biologist found a special surprise: an active bald eagle nest along the edge of one of the site’s lakes.