Ed Whitfield: “Secretary Chu's decision this week to not delegate this authority to FERC is quite timely because I noticed in my…”

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.

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.

Amen. I was just in China and we saw their reports in the local press. They're building new power plants they know they don't need. They just want the jobs, more coal emissions. So, again, it's a global challenge. It's not just America's…

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