- Nethercutt joins lobbying firm (January 31, 2005)
...st also has been a controversial figure. In January 2001, Cheney named the Energy Department employee to direct a task force that wrote a national energy policy. En... - US Scraps Nuclear Weapons Watchdog (July 31, 2003)
...A US department of energy panel of experts which provided independent oversight of the development o... - White House 'Exaggerating Iraqi Threat' (October 9, 2002)
...y there is not much support for that [nuclear] theory around here," said a department of energy specialist. David Albright, a physicist and former UN weapons inspecto... - Embattled Lab Unveils New Nukes (April 23, 2003)
...t had the ability to make the pits since the FBI stopped production at the Energy Department's Rocky Flats plant for environmental violations in 1989. It's the ope... - Nuclear Study, Given Go-Ahead, Rouses Fears About a New 'Bunker Buster' Weapon (November 17, 2002)
...tion of nuclear testing, which the United States suspended in 1992. The Energy Department is also considering building a new installation for making the plutonium p... - Oil Addiction Our Weakness Against Terror (April 14, 2002)
...ous little in new reserves. According to a recent report from the Bush-led Energy Department, the United States will have to import 62 percent of its oil by 2020 if we... - The Bush Deceit (August 14, 2003)
...s centrifuges to make bomb-grade uranium. The proliferation experts at the Department of Energy could not comment publicly, but they dissented privately. The inspectors o... - Bush Set To Flout Test Ban Treaty (July 28, 2002)
...renewed evidence that pro-nuclear hawks are increasingly holding sway, the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration is increasing funding for nucle... - Intelligence Official Says White House 'Lied' About Iraqi Threat (July 10, 2003)
...uld be used for gas centrifuges to enrich uranium, the best experts at the energy department disagreed. But the national security advisor, Condoleezza Rice, said publi... - Risks Prompt U.S. to Limit Access to Data (February 24, 2002)
...rgy have already removed thousands of documents from public access. The Energy Department decided to suppress about 9,000 documents from its Information Bridge Web... - Anti-Terror Advisor Resigns as Bush Aide (June 28, 2002)
... succeeded by another retired general, John A. Gordon, who is chief of the Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration, and previously was deputy dire... - Fears Prompt U.S. to Beef Up Nuclear Terror Detection (March 3, 2002)
... balance between false positives and false negatives. There are classified Energy Department documents that catalogue what one of them called "shortcomings in the abil... - Depiction of Threat Outgrew Supporting Evidence (August 10, 2003)
...ell were these likely to be centrifuge tubes," he said. Tenet said the Department of Energy was not the only agency with experts on the issue; the CIA consulted milit... - Making Money on Terrorism (February 5, 2004)
...d. The Bush nuclear buildup—large parts of which are funded out of the Energy Department budget, not the Pentagon—is particularly good news for Lockheed Martin. Th... - Investigators: Hussein Had No Nuclear Program (October 26, 2003)
...trifuge investigation, returned last month to his intelligence post at the Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Jeffrey Bedell, Domke's counterp... - Albany Research Center
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- 1946 - Atomic Energy Act PL 79-585
- 1954 - Atomic Energy Act Amendments PL 83-703
- 1956 - Colorado River Storage Project PL 84-485
- 1957 - Atomic Energy Commission Acquisition of Property PL 85-162
- 1957 - Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act PL 85-256
- 1968 - Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act PL 90-481
- 1973 - Mineral Leasing Act Amendments (Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline Authorization) PL 93-153
- 1974 - Energy Reorganization Act PL 93-438
- 1975 - Energy Policy and Conservation Act PL 94-163
- 1977 - Department of Energy established PL 95-91
- 1978 - Comprehensive energy package PL 95-617, 618, 619, 620
- 1980 - Energy Security Act PL 96-294
- 1989 - Natural Gas Wellhead Decontrol Act PL 101-60
- 1992 - Energy Policy Act PL 102-486
United States Department of Energy
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The United States Department of Energy is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government responsible for energy policy and nuclear safety. Its purview includes the nation's nuclear weapons program, nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy, energy conservation, energy-related research, radioactive waste disposal, and domestic energy production.
Many federal agencies have been established to handle various aspects of U.S. energy policy, dating back to the creation of the Manhattan Project and the subsequent Atomic Energy Commission. The impetus for putting them all under the auspices of a single department was the 1973 energy crisis, in response to which President Jimmy Carter proposed creation of the department. The enabling legislation was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Carter on August 4, 1977. The department was activated on October 1, 1977. The agency is administered by the United States Secretary of Energy.
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is an independent regulatory agency within the U.S. Department of Energy. The Department also manages the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.Laboratories administered by the Department include:
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