Environment
Information regarding my stance on Environmental issues.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded the Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) a grant worth $7 million to upgrade its fleet of diesel buses through the purchase of 15 new hybrid-electric buses. The federal award will be distributed by the Federal Transit Authority (FTA) as part of its “State of Good Repair” initiative.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today issued a statement on the pending Gibson Guitar investigation in Memphis, Tennessee. In August, federal authorities searched Gibson Guitar in Memphis for illegal sawn ebony and rosewood used for fingerboards.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today announced that the U.S. National Park Service has awarded T.O. Fuller State Park a Land and Water Conservation grant worth $466,527 for the development of a Nature/Interpretative Center. The new federal funding will be distributed by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressmen Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) and Peter Welch (D-VT) today said the U.S. Department of State’s newly released Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) on the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline fails to suitably note the full impact the controversial project will have on our country’s environment. TransCanada – which supplies some of the biggest oil companies in the world with toxic tar sands oil – is seeking State Department approval to build the Keystone XL Pipeline, a new 2,000 mile pipeline from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast in Texas.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today announced the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded two new federal grants worth more than $682,000 for clinical research related to neurological disorders. The first grant is worth $382,813 and has been awarded to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The second grant -- worth $300,000 – will go to Translational Sciences of Overton Park Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee.
MEMPHIS, TN – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today announced the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted a waiver until August 31 to allow winter-grade fuel to be sold in Shelby County in the wake of the Valero refinery explosion, which has created a reduced fuel supply throughout the region. Yesterday the Congressman sent a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson expressing his support for Governor Bill Haslam’s request for a waiver. Attached is the letter EPA sent granting the waiver.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) received a Friend of the National Parks Award from the nonpartisan National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) for his voting record in the 111th Congress. A photo of the award is attached.
MEMPHIS, TN, July 14, 2011 – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the awarding of more than $6.2 million in national environmental workforce development and job training grants to 21 grantees to recruit, train, and place unemployed, predominantly low-income residents in polluted areas.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today offered an amendment to the Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011 (H.R. 2018) that would ensure the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) maintains its existing authority to regulate pipelines crossing streambeds. The Cohen measure was accepted and added to the bill.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today said the recent pipeline oil spill in Montana is a preview for larger, more significant oil spills if the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline proposal is approved. TransCanada – which supplies some of the biggest oil companies in the world with toxic tar sands oil – is seeking State Department approval to build the Keystone XL Pipeline, a new 2,000 mile pipeline from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast in Texas.