Ed Whitfield: “I was prepared to close, but we do have one other speaker, and then I will close. He just came in, and we were not…”

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.

Why do you think the Supreme Court issued a stay of the Clean Power Plan?

The RFS was also supposed to provide a means for significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but a growing number of scientists and environmental advocates are saying otherwise.

This subcommittee has cast a critical eye on several major regulations--such as the ozone rule and the Clean Power Plan--that threaten billions of dollars in costs and thousands of jobs.