The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management unveiled a logo Tuesday morning that promotes a concept the agency calls “One EM.”
The minimalist header — featuring a green mountain range and a stylized, flowing river set against the backdrop of an orange, sunswept sky — includes branding similar to the “One EM Team” concept employees of the EM office championed last year.
The “One EM Team” concept was touted in a DOE press release last October. The concept developed from a “cross-office integrated project team (IPT) formed to assess and improve the headquarters organization’s culture,” the agency wrote at the time.
Whether and how the logo and the now-year-old team-building generated by EM employees are linked remained uncertain at press time for Weapons Complex Morning Briefing; EM’s public affairs department did not immediately reply to a request for comment Tuesday.
EM this year spoke often about paradigm and attitude shifts at the roughly $6-billion-a-year nuclear cleanup office.
Several times this summer, most recently in mid-September during the 2016 National Cleanup Workshop in Alexandria Va., then-EM No. 2 Mark Whitney — who left the agency and became chief operating officer of AECOM’s nuclear and environment strategic business unit on Oct. 17 — hyped the office’s new organization structure and praised it for restoring focus on the office’s dozen-plus field centers.
At the same time, the reorganization created a new field office czar at EM headquarters: a Washington-based manager to whom heads of the agency’s major cleanup sites now report. Previously, these site bosses reported directly to the office of the assistant secretary for environmental management — the political appointee who is the top nuclear cleanup official in all of DOE. The agency tapped Stacey Charboneau, former head of the Richland Operations Office at the Hanford Site in Washington state, for the new headquarters role.
