Environment & Animal Welfare
"In California, I was honored to coauthor AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act. But it's clear to me that to solve climate change, we need America to do what California has done, and then for America to get other countries to do what California has done. That's why my first piece of legislation in Congress was the Climate Solutions Act of 2015: a bold, innovative plan to energize investment in green energy technology, set strong renewable energy standards and slash the carbon pollution that is damaging our planet."
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WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that he secured $1.6 million in federal funding for a University of California (UCLA) climate research project in the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations bill recently signed into law by President Biden.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that he secured over $8 million in federal funding for environmental projects in Los Angeles County in the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations bill recently signed into law by President Biden.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that he secured over $7 million in federal funding for five community projects in Los Angeles in the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations bill recently signed into law by President Biden.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that he secured $5 million in federal funding for five South Bay community projects in the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations bill recently signed into law by President Biden.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that coastal Los Angeles County will receive $22,601,025 in Community Project Funding as part of the annual spending bill that passed today. In addition to the funding for community projects, Rep.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), along with fellow California Coastal Caucus Co-Chair Julia Brownley (D-CA), led Members in urging the FDA to test fish and shellfish off the coast of southern California for dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, or DDT.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) was elected Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus, the number four position in House Democratic Leadership. Congressman Lieu is the first Asian American elected as Vice Chair. He issued the following statement after his colleagues elected him:
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) shared the news that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award a $330,432 Enhanced Mobility Innovation (EMI) Grant to the City of Santa Monica's public bus system, Big Blue Bus.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) is leading a bipartisan group of Members in sending letters to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the U.S.