Energy
WASHINGTON --- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the State of Tennessee will receive $2,484,530 from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program. The funding for the program came from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) that only Congressman Cohen in the current Tennessee Congressional Delegation voted for.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a grant of $750,000 from the National Science Foundation for Phase One of its Center for Electrified and Automated Trucking (CEAT) under the direction of Civil Engineering Professor Sabya Mishra.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a longtime proponent of using the Clean Air Act to limit the pollution driving climate change, today applauded the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) suite of new rules governing fossil fuel-fired power plants. He was particularly pleased to see a final rule requiring the safe management of coal ash like that produced by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) and Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety, and today urged Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Chair Joe Ritch and President Jeffrey Lyash not to move forward with a new 1,500 megawatt gas plant and 122-mile pipeline based on an incomplete and insufficient environmental impact statement, which has been called out directly by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its inadequacy.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will provide $3,355,166 for repairs to damage to the Memphis Light, Gas, and Water (MLGW) Division headquarters building and garage sustained by winter storms in February 2021.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today applauded the passage of his TVA Salary Transparency Act, which would reinstate and modernize the Tennessee Valley Authority’s annual reporting requirement to Congress on its management structure and on the compensation of its top executives and managers. Specifically, the legislation would correct a change enacted in 1995 that removed a requirement to disclose the management structure and salaries of TVA executives as part of legislation to eliminate antiquated federal agency reporting requirements.
WASHINGTON – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-9) and Tim Burchett (TN-2) today introduced the TVA Increase Rate of Participation (IRP) Act to require greater transparency and accountability in the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) process. The IRP process is a comprehensive study projecting how the nation’s largest federal utility meets energy needs.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that Tennessee will be receiving $68,117,175 in Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) funding, supplemented by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) that he alone in the current Tennessee Congressional delegation supported.
The IIJA portion of the LIHEAP funding totals $1,701,882.
Overview
The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is a federally funded initiative designed to assist low-income households, seniors, and others in meeting their immediate home energy needs. The program helps people lower their home heating and energy bills by directly offsetting costs with their local utility provider, ensuring that they can maintain a safe and healthy living environment during the coldest and hottest months of the year. While LIHEAP is funded at the federal level, it is administered locally by state and community agencies.
MEMPHIS -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today applauded President Biden’s nomination of Memphis native Patrice Jordan Robinson to the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Board of Directors. The nomination requires Senate confirmation.