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Growth Energy is urging the Department of Energy to address a recent “inaccurate and misleading” study about ethanol that claims to be partially funded by the department.

The Department of Energy is awarding nearly $77 million in incentive pay to four contractors for their work at the Hanford nuclear reservation in fiscal 2020.

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Battelle will continue operating the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland for the next five years. The Tri-City Herald reports that the Department of Energy on Friday announced it would not open the contract to other bidders when it expires in 2017, meaning Battelle will have operated the lab for 57 years straight before their contract expires again...

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — The latest estimate is out to complete the cleanup of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The U.S. Department of Energy says the remaining work will cost $107.7 billion and be largely completed by 2060. Monday's estimate was released by the Department of Energy with its regulators, the Environmental Protection Agency and the state of Washington. ...

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — The Obama administration wants to spend less money on the ongoing cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation next year. The Tri-City Herald reports that the White House called for an overall decrease in money spent for cleanup of defense sites like Hanford in its federal budget request for fiscal year 2017. A Dep...

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — An Albuquerque, N.M.-based watchdog group is dismissing a plan to move some 3 million gallons of radioactive waste from Washington state to New Mexico as a "bad, old idea that's been uniformly rejected on a bipartisan basis" in the past...