Funding for the Department of Energy’s cleanup program was the subject of two amendments offered yesterday during debate on the House floor over the Fiscal Year 2014 Energy and Water Appropriations Act. Longtime cleanup supporter Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) was successful in amending the bill to add another $22.5 million in defense environmental cleanup funds, with the money to come from funding for DOE’s Office of Renewable Energy, Energy Reliability and Efficiency and for Departmental administration. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), though, failed in an effort to cut defense environmental cleanup funding in the bill by approximately $1.66 billion and to move the money to DOE’s EERE office and Office of Science, along with the Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy.
NEW: Via public records request, I’ve been able to confirm reporting today that a warrant has been issued for DOE deputy asst. secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition Sam Brinton for another luggage theft, this time at Las Vegas’s Harry Reid airport. (cc: @EMPublications)
DOE spent fuel lead Brinton accused of second luggage theft.
by @BenjaminSWeiss, confirming today's reports with warrant from Las Vegas Metro PD.
Waste has been Emplaced! 🚮
We have finally begun emplacing defense-related transuranic (TRU) waste in Panel 8 of #WIPP.
Read more about the waste emplacement here: https://wipp.energy.gov/wipp_news_20221123-2.asp
Editorial: Sam Brinton’s credibility is now an issue 🔓