Ed Whitfield actually said...

Policies that delay or prevent energy exports are detrimental to energy producing states like Kentucky, and they hurt the nation as a whole.

The last thing we need is the kind of years-long bureaucratic delays comparable to what we have seen with Keystone XL.

I would like to call this hearing to order, and today's hearing is entitled 'U.S. Energy Abundance and the Regulatory, Market, and Legal Bar...

Coal consumption is increasing every year worldwide, primarily because of increased use in China, India, and Asia.