Ed Whitfield: “I would like to call this hearing to order, and today's hearing is entitled 'U.S. Energy Abundance and the Regulatory…”

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.

Cumbersome red tape in our regulatory process forces ratepayers to pay more for safe, clean nuclear power.

there is an immense loss of wildlife habitat where because of the incentives that Congress has passed...

I want clean air. I want clean water. But I don't want an organized attack on the energy-producing sector of America because of, to use Mr. McNerney's term, a political decision to go after hydrocarbons.