Secretary Granholm Set for Keynote Address at National Cleanup Workshop

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the annual event!

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is scheduled to deliver an in-person keynote address at the 10th Annual National Cleanup Workshop set for Sept. 16-18 this year at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Virginia.

Granholm joins a growing list of federal representatives, industry officials and state and local leaders speaking at this year’s workshop, billed as the premier annual gathering to discuss progress in environmental cleanup of former government weapons sites and nuclear research facilities.

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is set to deliver an in-person keynote address at the 10th Annual National Cleanup Workshop this year.

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) Senior Advisor Candice Robertson will also provide remarks, as well as several other speakers, including:

• U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (TN-03), Chairman, House Appropriations Energy and Water Development Subcommittee
• Jeff Avery, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, DOE-EM
• Greg Sosson, Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Field Operations, DOE-EM
• Kristen Ellis, Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regulatory and Policy Affairs, DOE-EM
• Dae Chung, Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Corporate Services, DOE-EM
• James McConnell, Associate Principal Deputy Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration
• Brent Gerry, Mayor, City of West Richland, WA; Chair, ECA and
• Rebecca Casper, Mayor, City of Idaho Falls, Idaho, and Vice-Chair, ECA.

Check out the full agenda here, recently released.

The workshop kicks off with a meeting for early career professionals and concludes with the U.S. House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus on Capitol Hill.

Hosted by ECA with the cooperation of the Energy Facility Contractors Group and DOE-EM, the workshop brings together more than 800 senior DOE executives, officials from DOE sites, industry leaders, local elected officials, contractors, and community stakeholders to discuss EM’s progress to address the environmental legacy of the Manhattan Project and Cold War-era U.S. nuclear weapons program.