Trump layoffs hit Pacific Northwest engineers and researchers at PNNL, Hanford cleanup, elsewhere
The Trump administration layoffs are hitting engineers and researchers at PNNL, Hanford, NOAA, the Bonneville Power ...
‘Creative baking’ by Tri-City researchers makes new alloy for nuclear reactors, energy uses
Finding ways to enable nuclear reactors and other energy technologies to operate reliably and efficiently while also reducing ...
Mayor of Eastern WA city with thousands of fed-paid workers catches heat for DOGE support
Democrats have criticized Trump’s austerity measures, especially with Musk — the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, and world’s richest ...
‘I have concerns.’ GOP Rep. Newhouse weighs in on job cuts at nuclear site and more
WA congressional delegation says they can’t get information on the number of federal jobs cut or positions eliminated at ...
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Mini flow battery speeds energy storage research
Sometimes, in order to go big, you first have to go small. That's what researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific ...
Trump’s initial federal layoffs hit Tri-Cities, WA area. Here’s what we know so far
More than 100 people protested at John Dam Plaza as job cuts hit local federal workers and other policies sparked concern.
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Hundreds of federal workers apply for unemployment in Washington state amid Trump's purge
Amid a surge of federal firings nationwide, 362 federal workers have applied for unemployment in Washington state between Jan ...
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PNNL researchers develop new method to extract rare minerals from discarded electronics
Thanks to a new method developed by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, it may be possible to recover the critical minerals in these discarded ...
‘It violates who we are as a nation.’ Ex-federal workers from WA angered by firings
Sen. Patty Murray shines spotlight on workers from region swept up in recent probationary firings by Trump administration.
Sweeping US energy department layoffs hit offices of loans, nuclear security, sources say
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has laid off about 1,200 to 2,000 workers at the Department of Energy, ...
Murray: Trump layoffs leave Hanford nuclear site with ‘skeleton crew’
More than a dozen Department of Energy workers were fired this month at a central Washington nuclear cleanup site, with at ...