Tag: Department of Energy

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Gas prices to average $2.60 in 2015, says Energy Dept. stats agency

Zack Colman · December 9, 2014 5:47 pm

If Sandia could not prevent competing bids, then it wanted the criteria by which proposals were evaluated changed in its favor. (iStock)

Sandia illegally used contract dollars to lobby for more federal contracts

Luke Rosiak · November 19, 2014 10:00 am

Sen. John Hoeven's bill aims to speed up export approvals to nations without a U.S. free-trade agreement. (iStock Photo)

Energy and Environment

Energy chief might back natural gas exports: Senator

Zack Colman · November 13, 2014 1:00 am

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz tamped down expectations that a weakening of the oil export ban was coming. (AP File Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Energy and Environment

Lifting crude exports ban will take time

Zack Colman · November 2, 2014 7:00 pm

Lifting 39-year-old restrictions on oil exports would boost the U.S. economy and lower gasoline prices, while strengthening the nation's hand in international disputes, according to a study released Tuesday.ÃÂ (iStock image)

Energy and Environment

Oil study gives ammo to would-be exporters

Zack Colman · October 30, 2014 9:03 pm

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National Security

Lax cybersecurity risks personal data

Sarah Bedford · October 27, 2014 7:19 pm

Energy Department officially retakes Paducah plant

Washington Examiner · October 21, 2014 3:20 pm

Ending restrictions that all but ban crude oil exports would likely boost the economy and wouldn't change gasoline prices, the head of the Energy Department's statistics arm said. (AP Photo)

Oil exports might not hit gas prices

Zack Colman · October 13, 2014 2:53 pm

In January, a shortage of propane in the Midwest caused prices to surge upwards to near $5 a gallon in some markets. Propane prices this winter are projected to fall 27 percent. (Getty/Scott Olson)

Energy and Environment

Winter heating bills to drop

Zack Colman · October 7, 2014 8:40 pm

Four VA execs targeted for termination, but no one has actually been fired yet

Mark Flatten · October 7, 2014 8:08 pm

"We determined that programs and sites routinely paid more than necessary when acquiring software licenses," the IG said in a Sept. 30 memorandum from Inspector General Gregory H. Friedman to DOE Secretary Ernst Moniz. (iStock)

Energy officials overpay for software

Richard Pollock · October 6, 2014 5:10 pm

Susan M. Taylor, the subject of a scathing VA inspector general's report released Friday, landed the new job as director of procurement planning at the Department of Energy and was slated to start Sunday, Oct. 5.

UPDATED: Disgraced VA official landed, then lost new job at Energy Department

Mark Flatten · October 2, 2014 8:20 pm