By EPN staff Key Points The Trump administration terminated onshore and offshore wind projects in multiple states and phased out subsidies, pausing new leasing on fed...
By Tom Schultz This is a lightly edited excerpt of testimony recently provided to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources during a hearing concerning the president’s fiscal ...
By EPN Staff The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) unveiled a pilot initiative aimed at revolutionizing advanced nuclear reactor testing. The program allows private developers to build a...
By EPN Staff The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved the United States’ second Small Modular Reactor design, an important step in a still fledgling sector of U.S. nuclear development. ...
By EPN Staff Even though only two new nuclear facilities have come online in the United States since 1996, the country operates the world’s largest nuclear fleet, according to the Energy Info...
By EPN Staff A broad new coalition will push for more federal action to prevent wildfires, arguing that the problem calls for a coordinated national strategy. Partners in Wildfire Prev...
By EPN Staff The effort to identify potential areas for spent nuclear fuel storage is gaining traction in multiple regions, including Kentucky, Tennessee, Idaho, New Mexico and Colorado, urni...
By EPN Staff Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, an energy producer advocacy group, has been nominated for the role of director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), ...
By EPN Staff Support for emerging nuclear technologies, including small modular reactors (SMRs), is growing across the Mountain West states, with construction of next-generation facilities un...