The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday to consider the nomination of Chris Wright for secretary of energy.
The hearing was scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Eastern time in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, room 366. The hearing will also be webcast live on the Energy and Natural Resources committee’s website.
Wright is the CEO and founder of Liberty energy, a Denver-based oilfield services company. He also sits on the board of Oklo, a company based in California that seeks to develop small modular reactors to deploy at the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory.
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 🔓