Ed Whitfield: “Nothing is more important than safety for those men and women who are jockeys out there riding these magnificent…”

During the almost 6 years that I have been chairman of this subcommittee, we've had 40 hearings that have looked at various EPA rules and proposals that affect or will affect the Nation's energy and industrial sectors.

EPA has created a de facto fuel and renewable energy standard for America.

So many critics say that that flexibility argument--we're giving maximum flexibility to the State--is really a red herring.

However, most of this trend is due to sharply increased domestic oil production--something that few imagined was even possible during the Congressional debates over the RFS.