We could be the Saudi Arabia of clean energy technology.
If there are no adequate technologies or no safe chemicals to respond to spills, then drilling simply should not be allowed.
But that shouldn't happen in the deep sea, the attachment to detritus.
But the Government ought to have some oversight.
And the reason that that acute toxicity is not showing up in your field studies is because the concentration that you are testing at is belo...
The hearing of the Subcommittee will come to order.
I would also suggest that there is a floor below which that executive policymaking discretion cannot go.
The fundamental principle is that the administrative agencies must further the policies crafted by Congress.
The situation at MMS, as Senator Whitehouse has pointed out, is a good example of this form of capture.
I appreciate Senator Feingold's statement, and that will be added to the record without objection.
This problem of agency capture deserves a great deal more attention than it is presently getting.