U.S. Department of Energy

Yakama Nation Tells DOE to Clean Up Nuclear Waste

By Michelle Tolson
The Department of Energy (DOE), politicians and CEOs were discussing how to warn generations 125,000 years in the future about the radioactive waste at Hanford Nuclear Reservation, considered the most polluted site in the U.S., when Native American anti-nuclear activist Russell Jim interrupted their musings: “We’ll tell them.”

Critics Push to Stall New Obama “Social Cost of Carbon” Calculations

By Carey L. Biron
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced it is accepting a petition from a conservative advocacy group critical of a recent substantial increase to official calculations of the so-called “social cost of carbon”.


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