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October - December 2007

12/21/07	DOE Releases Filing Instructions for Federal Risk Insurance for New Nuclear Power Plants
12/21/07	Department of Energy Finalizes Regulations to Increase Energy Efficiency in New Federal Buildings by 30%
12/19/07	Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Inaugural Steering Group Meeting Makes Marked Progress
12/18/07	Statement from DOE Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management James Rispoli on the National Academy of Public Administration’s Management Review of DOE’s Office of Environmental Management
12/18/07	Energy Department Awards $66.7 Million for Large-Scale Carbon Sequestration Project
12/18/07	Statement from U.S. Department Of Energy Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary For Fossil Energy James Slutz
12/13/07	Two Independent Assessments Find the Department of Energy’s Yucca Mountain Project is on Track
12/12/07	Statement from Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman Regarding EIA’s Updated Annual Energy Outlook
12/12/07	Statement from Ward Sproat on Yucca Mountain, Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management
12/12/07	U.S. and China Increase Biofuels Cooperation Ahead of the Third U.S. – China Strategic Economic Dialogue
12/11/07	Department of Energy Welcomes the Republic of Korea to the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
12/04/07	Department of Energy to Invest up to $7.7 Million for Four Biofuels Projects
12/03/07	DOE Cites Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC for Price-Anderson Violations
11/30/07	DOE Statement on Canada Joining the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
11/30/07	Department of Energy Lauds Highly Efficient Industrial Technology
11/29/07	DOE to Invest More than $5 Million for Concentrating Solar Power
11/28/07	Department of Energy Names New Administrator for Southwestern Power Administration
11/28/07	Top U.S. Nuclear Official Commends Industry for Submitting 3rd Combined Construction & Operating License Application to the NRC
11/28/07	Retired Major General Smolen Sworn-In as Head of NNSA Defense Programs
11/19/07	DOE Increases Energy Efficiency Standards for Residential Furnaces & Boilers
11/19/07	U.S. and Russia Sign Plan for Russian Plutonium Disposition
11/18/07	Secretary Bodman Celebrates the Opening of the Turkey-Greece Inter-Connector
11/16/07	Energy Secretary Bodman in Turkey to Highlight Importance of Expanding Oil and Gas Supply and Infrastructure
11/16/07	Secretary Bodman Addresses Turkmenistan Industrial Oil and Gas Exhibition
11/13/07	U.S. Energy Secretary Highlights Need for Energy Diversity at 20th World Energy Congress Ministerial Forum in Rome
11/08/07	Agencies Publish Draft Environmental Impact Statement on Energy Transport Corridor Designations in 11 Western States
11/08/07	Department of Energy to Invest More than $21 Million for Next Generation Solar Energy Projects
11/08/07	Three Companies Awarded Contracts for Royalty-in-Kind Exchanges for the SPR
11/06/07	Secretary Bodman Touts Importance of Cellulosic Ethanol at Georgia Biorefinery Groundbreaking
11/02/07	White House Honors Federal Agencies for Saving Taxpayers $133 Million in Energy Costs by Increasing Efficiency Measures
11/01/07	Secretary of Energy Recognizes Federal Employees for Efforts Yielding $18 Million in Energy Savings
11/01/07	Energy Department Early Career Scientists and Engineers Honored
10/30/07	U.S. Department Of Energy Commends Industry Consortia for Making Headway to Build Much-Needed, New Nuclear Reactors in U.S.
10/30/07	Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab to Dramatically Increase Use of Clean, Renewable Energy
10/29/07	Statement by DOE Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Dennis Spurgeon
10/25/07	Energy Department Issues Draft Request for Proposals for Operation of its Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington
10/24/07	DOE’s Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) Program
10/23/07	Have You Seen the Light? Nearly 1 Million Take Pledge to Make Energy Efficient Change
10/23/07	U.S. and Mongolia Sign MOU to Increase Cooperation in Preventing Nuclear Smuggling
10/22/07	Department of Energy Recognizes Six Leading Organizations for Helping the U.S. ‘Go Green’
10/19/07	German Technische Universitat Darmstadt Wins DOE's 2007 Solar Decathlon
10/19/07	DOE National Laboratory Research Projects Win 31 R&D Awards for 2007
10/18/07	U.S. and Spain to Develop Solar Decathlon Europe
10/18/07	DOE to Provide Nearly $8 Million to Safeguard the Nation’s Energy Infrastructure from Cyber Attacks
10/18/07	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign wins Market Viability Contest at Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon
10/18/07	Third U.S. Climate Change Science Program Report Issued
10/17/07	University of Maryland Outshines Competition in the Lighting Contest at Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon
10/16/07	University of Maryland Wins Communications Contest at Department of Energy’s 2007 Solar Decathlon
10/15/07	German University Wins Architecture Contest in the Department of Energy’s Third Solar Decathlon
10/11/07	DOE Office of Science Publishes Update of Landmark Plan: “Facilities for the Future of Science: A Twenty-Year Outlook”
10/10/07	SPR to Continue Royalty-in-Kind Fill Program
10/10/07	U.S. Secretaries Bodman and Spellings Visit T.C. Williams High School
10/09/07	DOE Awards First Three Large-Scale Carbon Sequestration Projects
10/04/07	Statement by Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman on Senator Pete Domenici’s Retirement from the U.S. Senate
10/04/07	DOE Cites Bechtel National Incorporated for Price-Anderson Violations
10/04/07	DOE Announces Final Rule for Loan Guarantee Program
10/03/07	DOE Launches Change a Light, Change the World Campaign
10/03/07	Department of Energy Official in Salt Lake City to Launch Change a Light, Change the World
10/02/07	DOE Designates Southwest Area and Mid-Atlantic Area National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors
10/01/07	Department of Energy Awards More Than $16 Million for GNEP Technology Development Plans
10/01/07	DOE Provides $30 Million to Jump Start Bioenergy Research Centers