{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cramer.senate.gov/news/press-releases/sen-cramer-department-of-energy-awards-nearly-49-million-for-project-tundra-construction", "Sen. Cramer: Department of Energy Awards Nearly $49 Million for Project Tundra Construction", "2024-10-21", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "Senate", "ND", "Kevin Cramer", "C001096", "www.cramer.senate.gov", "cramer", "https://www.cramer.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "Click here to download audio.\n\nBISMARCK, N.D. \u2013 The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management announced the award of nearly $49 million to DCC East Project LLC in Grand Forks to construct a large-scale geologic carbon storage facility in support of Project Tundra. The project will add full-time equivalent jobs to the already existing 360 jobs at Minnkota\u2019s Milton R. Young Station and the adjacent coal mine.\n\n\u201cProject Tundra really is the embodiment of North Dakota\u2019s energy dominance and, more importantly, innovation, and the state\u2019s commitment to lignite coal always being available, low-cost, reliable, abundant and a chosen, clean form of generating electricity,\u201d said U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee. \u201cThis award recognizes that leadership in responsible energy development and it gets this important project one step closer to completion.\u201d\n\nThis project, funded by the fully-paid-for Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will support the Carbon Storage Assurance Facility Enterprise (CarbonSAFE) Initiative. Established in 2016, the CarbonSAFE Initiative aims to address gaps in carbon capture and storage deployment.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:57:20Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.cramer.senate.gov/news/press-releases/sen-cramer-department-of-energy-awards-nearly-49-million-for-project-tundra-construction"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7447409443557262, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}