Energy

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) and Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts have led a letter to the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Board Chairman William Kilbride and its President and CEO Jeffrey J. Lyash urging them chart a path to 100 percent clean, renewable sources of energy by 2035, in line with the Biden Administration’s executive order on catalyzing a sustainable U.S. economy.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today offered an amended version of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Salary Transparency Act that he and Congressman Tim Burchett (TN-2) introduced last week at a markup of the legislation. The full committee passed the bill by a voice vote, and it is now eligible for consideration by the full House of Representatives.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will provide the State of Tennessee $12,160,651 for costs incurred by the Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division after the severe winter storm of February 3-4 last year. This public assistance is authorized under Section 406 of the Robert T. Stafford Act.

WASHINGTON – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-9) and Tim Burchett (TN-2) today introduced a measure ensuring the public has access to information about the salaries of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) employees making more than $109,908 annually, or the maximum basic pay rate of a General Schedule Grade 13 (GS-13) Federal employee.

WASHINGTON – Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm traveled to Riverview Elementary School earlier today to announce that it and its Middle School have been selected as one of 24 schools across the country to have major energy-savings renovations made under the Department’s Renew America’s Schools Program.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today wrote to Governor Bill Lee urging him to seek federal assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for damage done by high winds since Sunday. Congressman Cohen noted that the minimum threshold has been far exceeded with millions of dollars in damage already reported.

The letter reads in part:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today questioned Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) CEO Jeff Lyash at a Subcommittee on Water and the Environment hearing reviewing President Biden’s 2024 Budget Request for that agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today spoke from the House floor in favor of the debt ceiling compromise, despite some provisions he doesn’t like, and then voted for it. While there was much in the measure that he didn’t like, such as a rollback of environmental regulations and added work requirements for SNAP recipients, he said, “As Members of Congress, we have tough decisions to make.”