EM News

The U.S. Department of Energy issued a request for qualifications related to the Cleanup to Clean Energy initiative for utility-scale energy projects within the 310-square-mile Savannah River Site. Today’s announcement reinforces the Biden-Harris Administration’s whole-of-government approach to leveraging federal properties to increase the deployment of clean power through the buildout of utility-scale clean energy projects.

Workers at the Hanford Site recently finished filling the last large concrete basin at the K Reactor Area with cement-like grout. The basin stored reactor fuel rods from the plutonium production mission.

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) team members injected more than 100 million gallons of artesian well water to clean up shallow groundwater underneath a 33-acre former coal storage yard and associated runoff basin at the Savannah River Site (SRS).

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) has named Carrie Meyer as its director of communications and stakeholder engagement.

When crews with Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and cleanup contractor UCOR finished demolishing the mile-long K-25 Building more than a decade ago, they left behind a massive 44-acre footprint that’s now part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park.

An employee of the Idaho Environmental Coalition (IEC), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site, recently received recognition for her efforts to enhance safety last year.

Watch interns in action through the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO), and listen as they share perspectives on their experiences at EM’s Portsmouth, Paducah, and Lexington sites this summer as PPPO prepared them for the next generation workforce

A U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) held a special small business workshop for local black-owned businesses around SRS.

Officials from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and state environmental agencies recently held the annual National Cleanup Dialogue to focus on shared responsibilities, challenges and opportunities in EM’s cleanup across the country.