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In this Aug. 21, 2017, photo, workers make sure that each section of the Enbridge replacement Line 3 that is joined passes muster in Superior, Wisc. The sponsor of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline says it's pulling the plug on the contentious project, Wednesday, June 9, 2021, after Canadian officials failed to persuade the Biden administration to reverse its cancellation of the company's permit. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP) **FILE**

Axing Keystone XL pipeline cost thousands of jobs, billions of dollars, Energy Department says

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing on the Fiscal Year 2023 Budget in Washington, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (Bonnie Cash/Pool Photo via AP)

GOP lawmakers say Sam Brinton episode raises questions about hiring, vetting

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., speaks during a news conference Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022, at the Capitol in Washington. President Joe Biden on Saturday was criticized by Manchin for being “cavalier” and “divorced from reality” the day after vowing to shuttered coal fired electric plants and lean heavier on wind and solar energy in the future. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Manchin: DOE official Sam Brinton in ‘big trouble’ but shouldn’t be fired yet for snatching $2K bag

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Sam Brinton attends the New York screening of 'Boy Erased' at the Whitby Hotel on Oct. 22, 2018, in New York City. (Photo credit: Ron Adar via Shutterstock. FILE)

Biden’s nonbinary head of nuclear waste admits to snatching luggage worth over $2,000 from airport

By Susan Ferrechio and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

One of Pacific Gas &amp; Electric's Diablo Canyon Power Plant's nuclear reactors in Avila Beach, Calif., is viewed Nov. 3, 2008. The Biden administration said Monday, Nov. 21, 2022, it is granting preliminary approval to spend up to $1.1 billion to help keep California's last operating nuclear power plant running. The Energy Department said it was creating a path forward for the Diablo Canyon Power Plant to remain open, with the final terms to be negotiated and finalized. The money could help the plant stay open beyond its planned 2025 closure. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant, File)

Feds offer $1B to keep California’s last nuclear plant open

By Jennifer McDermott and Matthew Daly - Associated Press

A portrait of Chinese President Xi Jinping is displayed near the words that means "I will put aside my own well-being for the good of my People" at the Museum of the Communist Party of China in Beijing, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Inspector general to probe Energy Department’s tech giveaway to China

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration on China's new financial interest in advanced battery technology by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

America must not give China the production of advanced battery technology

By Bud Albright

This undated file photo shows the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. (The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)

Former Los Alamos nuclear scientists aid China’s advanced weapons, private study says

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this handout photo released by Uzbekistan Foreign Ministry, Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (Uzbekistan Presidential Press Service via AP)

Lawmakers want investigation of Energy Department transferring expensive tech to China

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

FILE - Drivers for an oil delivery company fill their trucks at the Sprague terminal, on Jan. 16, 2014, in South Portland, Maine. Diesel and heating oil supplies in the Northeast are more than 50% below the recent average, raising concerns that an extreme weather event could cause supply disruptions, federal officials said. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Low fuel inventories cause special concern in U.S. Northeast

By David Sharp - Associated Press

An undated photo provided by the Department of Energy shows crude oil pipes at the Bryan Mound site near Freeport, Texas. The White House announced Thursday, March 31, 2022, that Biden ordered the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day from the strategic petroleum reserve for the next six months. (Department of Energy via AP) ** FILE **

House GOP calls for probe into Biden’s ‘mismanagement’ of oil reserves after overseas sales

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

An undated photo provided by the Department of Energy shows crude oil pipes at the Bryan Mound site near Freeport, Texas. The White House announced Thursday, March 31, 2022, that Biden ordered the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day from the strategic petroleum reserve for the next six months. (Department of Energy via AP) ** FILE **

Hawley demands investigation into Biden’s reserve oil funnel to China

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm speaks during a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell Fontelles, and European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson at the State Department in Washington, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool) **FILE**

Energy Secretary Granholm to face grilling on Biden energy policies, security threats

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

This May 21, 2018, photo shows a row of dishwashers for sale at Lowe's Home Improvement store in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey) **FILE**

Biden administration seeks to scrub Trump-era rule on faster dishwashers

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 12, 2020, photo, water flows from a showerhead in Portland, Ore. President Joe Biden's administration is reversing a Trump-era rule approved after the former president complained he wasnt getting wet enough because of limits on water flow from showerheads. Now, with a new president in office, the Energy Department is going back to a standard adopted in 2013, saying it provides plenty of water for a good soak and a thorough clean. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane) **FILE**

Biden orders return to low-flow showers, nixes Trump reprieve from environmentalist showerhead rules

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Illustration on sustainable energy, greenhouse gas emissions and Biden policy by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Reaching greenhouse gas emissions goals depends on innovation

By Daniel Simmons

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2021, file photo, Jennifer Granholm testifies before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee during a hearing to examine her nomination to be Secretary of Energy on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Biden administration is reviving an Energy Department program that dispersed billions of dollars in loan guarantees to companies such as electric car maker Tesla and the failed solar company Solyndra. In an interview with The Associated Press, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says that up to $40 billion in guarantees will be made available for a variety of clean-energy projects. (Jim Watson/Pool via AP, File)

AP Interview: DOE reviving loan program, Granholm says

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

Hanford contractor to lay off 30 workers

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Energy officials award incentive pay to Hanford contractors

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New contractor chosen for Savannah River National Lab

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