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The Bioenergy Technologies Office hosted the Transitioning to a Sustainable, Circular Economy for Plastics Workshop in partnership with DOE’s Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office and the Climate Pledge coalition in June 2023.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) released a summary report following its Workshop: Transitioning to a Sustainable, Circular Economy for Plastics held June 8-9, 2023, in Seattle, Washington.
The DOE EM-LA legacy cleanup contractor, N3B, earned approximately $13.2 million, or 77 percent, of the fee available during the performance evaluation period of fiscal year 2023, according to a recently released scorecard.
U.S. Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk and other DOE leaders joined community members and other stakeholders last week to mark the attainment of an EM 2023 priority at the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project earlier this year.
The Paducah Site recently met an EM 2023 priority ahead of schedule with the safe and successful disposal of over 1 million pounds of R-114 refrigerant, an environmental hazard stored at the site.
DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) logged another successful year, achieving all of its EM priorities for 2023 and advancing cleanup across the site.
EM’s use of aerial drones at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site is enabling cleanup contractor Idaho Environmental Coalition (IEC) to collect valuable data, protect workers and reduce costs.
Envisioning a future for EM sites can be challenging for communities given the longevity of cleanup activities. However, when two sites have an almost identical footprint — in this case Portsmouth in Ohio and Paducah in Kentucky — the opportunity to see potential becomes clearer.
EM’s contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site took an important step in its efforts to support science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) education in Idaho with the formation of its weSTEAM program.