EM leaders recently got a firsthand look at cleanup progress being made at the Paducah Site in western Kentucky.

Members of eight local advisory boards across the cleanup complex gathered on May 3-4 for the biannual Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB) National Chairs meeting.

Support from Congress will enable EM to continue making steady progress in cleaning up communities that supported U.S. defense efforts over the decades, Senior Advisor William “Ike” White told a Senate panel on April 27.

EM continued a decade-long trend in reducing its energy and water use and greenhouse gas emissions in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2021.

Top EM officials and leaders from cleanup communities will headline the 2022 National Cleanup Workshop that will be held Sept. 21-23 in Arlington, Virginia.

Scientists, engineers and technical experts from DOE programs learned of progress in technology development during a workshop held April 25-27 in Augusta, Georgia.

EM has requested a fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget of $7.64 billion, an amount that will enable the program to continue making strong, steady and sustained progress on priorities to clean up legacy nuclear sites now and in the years ahead.

As EM continues its historic cleanup across the DOE complex, its liquid waste work is taking a higher profile.

EM sites through key investments proposed in EM’s fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget request, reflecting the Administration’s strong commitment to cleaning up the environment in a new era of steady, sustained achievement.

Local officials along with leaders from DOE, Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), and the University of South Carolina Aiken (USC Aiken) broke ground on the Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative (AMC) facility to be built on the USC Aiken campus.