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Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Frank J. Mrvan announced the inclusion of his Community Project Funding requests in the final version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 appropriations measure. The House approved the measure earlier this week, and it is expected to be approved by the Senate and signed into law by the President shortly in the coming days.
Washington, DC – Today, Rep. Frank J. Mrvan released the following statement in advance of the State of the Union Address.
“Since 1790, the State of the Union has been a time-honored tradition for the executive branch to enter the well of Congress and annually update the separate and coequal legislative branch of government.
When LaRanza Carson first met Sherman Caldwell of Gary at the Gary Metro bus station, she learned he was homeless.
The former U.S. Marine was down on his luck and down on himself when the pair began a conversation on the bench where Caldwell was sleeping each night that ultimately put him on a new path.
“Mr. Sherman Caldwell was one of my first clients,” said Carson, who is program director of Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program & Supportive Services for Veteran Families for Volunteers of America Ohio and Indiana.
During a visit to Purdue Northwest's CIVS lab, U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan said research there is “an example for the world to see.”
Mrvan was joined Feb. 16 by representatives from the U.S. Department of Energy, including Geri Richmond, DOE under secretary for science and innovation. The group visited PNW's Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation to observe research into steel decarbonization initiatives funded through several multimillion-dollar research grants from the DOE’s office of renewable energy and efficiency.
On the southern shore of Lake Michigan, a university and a steel plant are working on the same problem. With technical and financial support from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), both organizations are trying to clear a major obstacle on America's path to a clean energy economy: the decarbonization of our heavy industries.
Commendatory remarks, smiles, and even a few enthusiastic “high-fives” were shared on Feb. 16 as representatives from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the office of U.S. Representative Frank Mrvan visited Purdue University Northwest’s (PNW) Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) to observe research and impacts for federally-funded steel decarbonization initiatives.
A major hydrogen project planned for the BP Whiting Refinery is expected to bring a major impact to northwest Indiana, according to Congressman Frank Mrvan, D-Highland.
Speaking at an event Friday along with U.S. Department of Energy Under Secretary for Science and Innovation Geraldine Richmond, Mrvan said private sector funding for the project could reach up to $6 billion.
The project is the result of the coalition known as MachH2 being designated a regional hydrogen hub last year by the Biden Administration.
Federal and local officials got a close look Friday at some of the cutting-edge research in Northwest Indiana that is attempting to decarbonize the steel industry and boost efficiency.
U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan, D-Highland, and U.S. Department of Energy Under Secretary for Science and Innovation Geri Richmond lauded the work done by Purdue University Northwest’s Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) in Hammond.
Purdue University Northwest's Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation landed a $7.1 million grant through the U.S. Department of Energy to research how to decarbonize the steel industry.
More than a decade ago, the $4.2 billion BP Whiting Refinery Modernization Project was a major shot in the arm for the Calumet Region economy, a boon that meant steady work for skilled tradesmen for years and a windfall that made local union coffers flush.
As many as 14,000 construction workers toiled between 2008 and late 2013 to convert the former Standard Oil Refinery on the Lake Michigan lakefront to refine heavy crude from the oil sands region of Canada after the axis of oil production shifted.
It was the largest single private-sector investment in Indiana history.