Budget & Policy

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 1/9/2015 With fossil fuels set to remain a major factor in power generation for the foreseeable future, industry is best equipped to answer the call for lower emissions through innovation, not government mandate, American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard said during API’s annual State of American Energy event this week. […]

Sen. Joe Donnelly to Serve as Ranking Member Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 1/9/2015 Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is in line to be the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee, NS&D Monitor has learned. Sessions served as the ranking member of the panel for the last four years and the top Republican on […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 1/9/2015 The presence of silicate-rich rock in reservoirs to be used for carbon dioxide storage could hinder the flow of the substance, lowering the efficiency of the process and perhaps increasing the risk of leakage, according to a new study published late last month in Nature Communications. Because of the […]

WC Monitor 1/9/2014 IN THE WHITE HOUSE The Obama Administration will release its Fiscal Year 2016 budget request on time on Feb. 2, the Associated Press reported this week. The first Monday in February is the deadline for the annual budget release, a date the Obama Administration has missed frequently in the past. IN CONGRESS […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 1/9/2015 The Illinois Basin-Decatur Project, led by the Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium and the Department of Energy’s Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships, has officially stored 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide roughly 7,000 feet underground into the Mount Simon geologic formation, DOE announced this week. “This milestone is an important […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 1/9/2015 As the Environmental Protection Agency pushes back the finalization of new carbon emissions standards for new, modified and existing coal-fired power plants, the EPA is facing increased criticism over its use of the Kemper County Energy Facility to help demonstrate the viability of using carbon capture and storage as […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 1/9/2015 Proposed carbon emissions standards for new, modified and existing coal-fired power plants will now not be finalized until mid-summer, the Environmental Protection Agency announced this week. The EPA was under a statutory deadline to finalize the first of the rule, the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) which largely mandates […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 1/9/2015 The White Rose CCS project in the United Kingdom, which is currently undergoing a two year Front End Engineering and Design study, took significant steps forward late last month with the acceptance of the project’s Development Consent Order (DCO) by the Planning Inspectorate and the award of a development […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 1/9/2015 Before the United States can adequately address energy and environment needs through policy, the technology to do so must be developed and proven, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz said during an event hosted this week by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. “We have obviously very robust technology […]

Abby L. Harvey GHG Monitor 1/9/2015 Scotland’s energy system could feasibly be fueled almost entirely by renewable energy by 2030, according to a study published this week commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund. The report argues against a reliance on the eventual development of carbon capture and storage technology, though, stating that the technology is […]

GHG Monitor 1/9/2015 IN CONGRESS           Sen. Barbra Boxer (D-Calif.) announced this week that she will not seek re-election in 2016. In a video posted by the senator to her PAC for a Change website, she gave little explanation for the decision, save for a desire to “come home to this state that I love so […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 1/9/2015 Stephen Burns took over last week as the new Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Burns replaces Allison Macfarlane, who left the NRC to take a position at George Washington University. Burns was confirmed by the Senate this fall to serve as an NRC Commissioner, and among his previous […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 1/9/2015 John Kotek, the former staff director for the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future, has emerged as the top candidate to serve as the next Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, RW Monitor has learned. Kotek would fill the No.2 position […]

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 1/9/2015 Ash Carter, President Obama’s nominee to be the next Secretary of Defense, is set to appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee in early February, giving him time to recover from back surgery in December, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told reporters this week. McCain said the Committee was ready to […]

RW Monitor 1/9/2015 IN CONGRESS Sen. Barbra Boxer (D-Calif.) announced this week that she will not seek re-election in 2016. In a video posted by Boxer to her PAC for a Change website, she gave little explanation for her decision, save for a desire to “come home to this state that I love so much, […]

NS&D Monitor 1/9/2015 IN THE WHITE HOUSE The Obama Administration will release its Fiscal Year 2016 budget request on time on Feb. 2, the Associated Press reported this week. The first Monday in February is the deadline for the annual budget release, a date the Obama Administration has missed frequently in the past. IN CONGRESS […]

The Obama Administration will release its Fiscal Year 2016 budget request on time on Feb. 2, the Associated Press reported last night. The first Monday in February is the deadline for the annual budget release, a date the Obama Administration has missed frequently in the past.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is in line to be the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee, NS&D Monitor has learned. Sessions served as the ranking member of the panel for the last four years and the top Republican on the panel eight of the last 10 years—he temporarily turned over the reins […]

The Sea-Based Deterrence Fund that Congressional authorizers approved in the Fiscal Year 2015 National Defense Authorization Act represents a "zero-sum" game without additional top-line funding to relieve the financial burden the Ohio Replacement Program is expected to have on the wider Navy shipbuilding budget, a top Navy official said earlier this week. Speaking Tuesday during […]

Ash Carter, President Obama’s nominee to be the next Secretary of Defense, will appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee in early February, giving him time to recover from back surgery in December, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told reporters yesterday. McCain said the committee was ready to immediately have a hearing for Carter, but Carter […]

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A meeting of the Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratories scheduled for today has been cancelled. The meeting was to be the panel’s sixth and final of its phase one work, but with it expected to deliver its phase one report by Feb. 1, the final meeting was scrapped. The committee […]

An Office of Science project to consolidate alarm stations and save money at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the East Tennessee Technology Park and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office could end up costing the government money, DOE’s Inspector General said yesterday. The IG said the Office of Science—often lauded for its project management acumen—failed […]

Was the Congressional Advisory Panel on the Governance of the Nuclear Security Enterprise bold enough in recommending a move back to the Department of Energy for the National Nuclear Security Administration? Congress implored the panel to take bold action, and Norm Augustine, the co-chairman of the panel, thinks it did, and he is optimistic DOE […]

Rep.-elect Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.), who will replace longtime Hanford Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) when he retires in January, toured the Hanford site yesterday for the first time since the November elections. The full-day tour included stops at River Corridor, K Area, the Plutonium Finishing Plant, 200 West Pump and Treat, the Waste Treatment Plant, the […]

Rob Blair, the majority clerk on the House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee, is leaving the panel for the same spot on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. Blair follows Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.), who shifted to the top spot on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee two years ago after helming the Energy and Water panel. Blair has […]

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Mike Nartker NS&D Monitor 12/19/2014 In a new effort to further improve project management, the Department of Energy is moving forward with plans to conduct additional reviews of major projects to better identify and resolve potential problems before they have significant impacts. DOE’s new approach, unveiled late this week, involves what Department officials have described […]

Mike Nartker WC Monitor 12/19/2014 In a new effort to further improve project management, the Department of Energy is moving forward with plans to conduct additional reviews of major projects to better identify and resolve potential problems before they have significant impacts. DOE’s new approach, unveiled late this week, involves what Department officials have described […]

The Defense Department Inspector General on Friday released its “Semiannual Report to the Congress,” which shows that DoD IG completed one report focusing on the ballistic missile submarines’ communications systems and 76 reports defense-wide during the reporting period from April 1, to Sept. 30. Furthermore, the semiannual report shows that the “Nuclear Enterprise” category – […]