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The building’s efficient design is expected to result in an energy cost savings of more than 70 percent over the life of the facility.

Science fiction is now science fact as remote-controlled robots work on tank waste removal and inspection at Savannah River Site (SRS).

The mechanical helpers twist, roll and slide their way through hazardous areas that would be difficult for people to access without safety gear or superpowers.

The Office of Environmental Management marked a milestone at the end of last month as they completed 84 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-funded projects across America.

With a healthy appetitie for uranium and petroleum, this family of bacteria clean up nuclear waste and other toxic materials. A team of researchers has discovered exactly how they use their arms to do this.

After hearing the stories about the work that leaders from the gulf coast and their organizations have done, it’s clear to me that they are changing the paradigm of gulf coast recovery -- changing the way buildings are developed in the gulf and creating a generation of green builders in New Orleans who work closely with low-income communities.

As awareness builds for clean-burning cookstoves in the developing world, the Department of Energy is working with other government agencies and NGOs to make stoves cleaner, more efficient and more affordable.

Check out this epic demolition video from the Hanford Site in Washington state. But its more than just great footage -- this represents important progress in the cleanup of the environmental legacy of one of America's most famous scientific undertakings -- the Manhattan Project.

The end of an era -- and the beginning of a new chapter for the Savannah River Site.

To accelerate the Portsmouth GDP cleanup efforts left over from the Cold War, the Department of Energy made a huge step forward in our nuclear environmental cleanup efforts.

Recovery Act funds help clean up the Hanford site, retrograde melting (melting as something cools) and how open-cell clouds could help predict climate change.

Want to know more about one of the quickest and lowest cost ways we can reduce our carbon footprint and slow climate change? Read this.