Energy
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today announced that Tennessee will receive $13,074,884 in the current fiscal year and $88,334,969 over five years after passage of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Only Congressmen Cohen and Jim Cooper (TN-05) from the Tennessee delegation voted for the measure which President Biden signed into law in November.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today discussed the need for an increased focus on environmental justice by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and greater efforts to restore the Mississippi River at a Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment hearing to consider priorities for the 2022 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA).
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today announced that the first round of new federal transit funding under the historic Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), that only he and Congressman Jim Cooper (TN-05) voted for from the entire Tennessee Congressional delegation, is heading to Memphis and Tennessee to strengthen public transportation systems, support transit jobs across the region and make urgently needed investments, including for new bus acquisitions, facility upg
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a $198,766 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "ERI: Formation Mechanisms and Modeling of Wake Meandering in Wind Farms." The work is under the director of Dr. Daniel Foti in the Mechanical Engineering Department.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a vocal critic of the Tennessee Valley Authority's relationship with Memphis, its largest customer, today applauded efforts by the Chairs of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and three of its Subcommittees to get answers about the federally chartered company's ratepayer energy burden and apparent resistance to addressing renewable energy and climate change, an issue he has repeatedly raised.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today highlighted a new report from the White House outlining how he delivered nearly double the regular annual investment t
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division (MLGW) will receive $1,012,232 in funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for electrical distribution repairs following last April's snow and ice storm.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), who has a long history of attempting to make the Tennessee Valley Authority accountable to the communities it serves, today wrote to the utility's President and CEO Jeffrey Lyash to demand answers about TVA's decision to dump toxic coal ash at a landfill in Whitehaven.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today voted for and the House passed the Build Back Better Act, a once-in-generation investment in the people of our country and in the future of our climate.
WASHINGTON – As President Joe Biden touted the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act he signed into law on Monday with a tour earlier today of a General Motors plant in Detroit devoted to electric vehicles, Congressman Steve Cohen, a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, noted that Ford Motor Company's "Blue Oval City" investment in batteries and electric vehicles will transform the industry in West Tennessee.