Hurricane Recovery and Coastal Restoration
February 20, 2015
Scalise released the following statement after Judge Carl Barbier of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana issued an order rejecting BP's attempt to reduce its Clean Water Act fines associated with the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
December 10, 2014
Scalise today applauded the inclusion of a provision in the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations for 2015 Act that delays a wetland mitigation standard known as the "Modified Charleston Method" (MCM).
September 26, 2014
Scalise made this statement after sending a letter, along with the entire Louisiana Congressional delegation, to the Army Corps of Engineers regarding an unrealistic wetland mitigation regulation known as the “Modified Charleston Method."
September 4, 2014
Scalise (R-La.) today lauded a federal judge’s ruling that BP bears the majority of responsibility for the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.
August 29, 2014
METAIRIE, LA –U.S. Congressman Steve Scalise (LA-01) today issued the following statement on the ninth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in Southeast Louisiana.
August 22, 2014
Scalise (LA-01) today met with community leaders who are members of the Coalition for Coastal Resilience & Economy (CCRE) to discuss effective ways Louisiana can best implement coastal restoration projects throughout Louisiana when utilizing the RESTORE Act funds that will flow from the Gulf Coast Restoration Trust Fund.
August 14, 2014
U.S. Representative Steve Scalise (LA-01) released the following statement regarding the U.S. Treasury Department’s Interim Final Rule on the Resources and Ecosystem Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coastal States (RESTORE) Act.
July 11, 2014
Congressman Steve Scalise today introduced an amendment to the Energy and Water Appropriations Act, preventing the Army Corps from enforcing the Modified Charleston Method (MCM), a crippling wetlands mitigation standard, in Louisiana.
May 15, 2014
Scalise released the following statement today after the Water Resources Reform and Development Act Conference Report was released.
April 29, 2014
Scalise released the following statement today after the Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee officially reviewed the Morganza to the Gulf Hurricane Protection Project among the chief reports reviewed by the Army Corps of Engineers.