Environment
Information regarding my stance on Environmental issues.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive four grants totaling $2,447,031 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that Dr. Xiaolei Huang, a professor of computer science at the University of Memphis, will receive a grant of $528,137 from the National Science Foundation. His project, creating a smart sensing network for precision soybean breeding, is in collaboration with the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that Dr. Thomas Goebel of the University of Memphis Center for Earthquake Research and Information will receive a grant of $272,211 from the National Science Foundation. His research project will attempt to answer the question: Why are earthquake foreshocks rare in nature?
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is providing grants to Shelby County and to Memphis Shelby County Schools. Shelby County will receive $190,926 for its warning and alert system, which represents 75 percent of the cost. Memphis Shelby County Schools will receive $224,908 for security camera repairs and replacements, also repenting 75 percent of the total cost.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced Tipton County will receive funding of $125,791 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to repair roads and embankments damaged in the straight-line winds and tornadoes of April 2025. The figure represents 75 percent of the total of costs incurred.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) announced that the Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division (MLGW) will be reimbursed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for 75 percent of its cost to repair the power grid infrastructure damaged in storms and flooding in April of last year. That amounts to $1,850,109 for removal and replacement of utility poles, transformers, wire and other materials and the labor required to restore power.
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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today led a letter with Congresswomen Valerie Foushee (NC-4) and Debbie Dingell (MI-6) to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin urging him to withdraw a proposal to weaken federal safeguards regulating coal ash pollution. The letter has 30 additional Congressional co-signers.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today spoke from the House floor in favor of the Benton MacKaye National Scenic Trail Feasibility Study Act he cosponsored and later voted for the measure which passed by voice vote.
In his remarks, Congressman Cohen noted that the 288-mile scenic hiking trail connects Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina and crosses the Appalachian Trail six times. One 93-mile stretch is in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today applauded provisions included in the five-year surface transportation bill – Build America 250 – marked up Thursday by the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. The bill contains parts of several measures he introduced or championed.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) attended an address by Britain’s King Charles III to a joint session of Congress today and made the following statement: