Congressman Cohen Applauds EPA Rules on Limiting Pollution from Fossil-Fueled Power Plants
Commends agency for rule on safely managing coal ash
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).
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
“These new EPA rules will cut pollution from dirty fossil fuel-fired power plants and assure cleaner air in the future. I commend the Biden Administration for taking strong action to rein in polluters. I am particularly pleased that the safe management of coal ash is included in the new rules, preventing the kind of coal ash pond breach that TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant dumped in 2008 and the contamination of ground water threatened by the TVA’s Allen Fossil Plant on President’s Island in my district. These heightened safety standards will improve public health and save lives.”
Congressman Cohen urged the EPA to take the action announced today in letters to EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan last March and in July. See those letters here and here.
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