. and federal management examine the environmental protection agencies renewable fuel standard this morning. the agency develops regulation requiring the transportation fuel that s sold in the u.s. contain a minimal volume of renewable fuel. we re expected to hear from janet mccabe. oklahoma senator james lankford is chair of the hearing. looks like it could be a couple of minutes before it underway. we will have live coverage when it starts here on c-span3.
good morning. i want to welcome everyone on today s subcommittee hearing. i look forward to another important discussion regarding the renewable fuel standard and its management. since 2005 daily domestic royal production has nearly doubled. meanwhile other government regulations such as fuel economy standards combined with the recession led to lower demand that anticipated. the increased use of natural gas as lowered the greenhouse emissions. statutorily the epa is required to release the mandated volume by november 30th of the previous year. the epa has not met this deadline since 2009 and we re still waiting epa for the final version of the 2014 volumes even though the year in question has been over for six months. when the announcement was made in november of last year that we would not see a final rule until the calendar was over, the agent cited significant controversy as the reason. seemingly this program is unworkable in its current form and there s a tremendous amoun
thing in copenhagen. and i asked her the question at that time, i said, you know, if we if we were to pass the legislation that has been proposed here, let s keep in mind it started way back in 1997 when they said we passed a thing, the bird-hagel rule by 95-0 that if you come back from rio de janeiro or one of these places with a treaty that either hurts our economy or does not require the same thing from china and other countries as it does here, then we will not ratify it. and consequently, they never ratified it. and clinton never put it forward for ratification. now what she was saying at that time, i asked her the question. i asked her if we to pass either by regulation or legislation these reductions, isn t this going to, is this going to have the, the effect of lowering co 2 emissions worldwide, her answer was no. because it only affects here in the u.s. but that s not where the problem is. it s in china, india, mexico and other places wouldn t you say that it would a
all the jurisdiction over water in the united states. but i agree also the federal government, if it s navigable should be involved in it. so they had the navigable element in there. and they tried to do it legislatively. and you might remember that senator feingold in wisconsin and congressman overstar from minnesota were the house and the senate sponsors of that. not only did we beat the legislation, but we beat both of them in the next election. so we have the public on our side. and now we have the newspapers and others coming out. and the crisis came when they finally, in addition to climate-gate, if you look at this chart here it s kind of neat. the red line is what they were guessing all of their models were predicting that this is what was going to happen with the temperatures and then of course it didn t happen. so that was another little crisis that they even the intergovernmental panel on climate change admitted that a 2013 report that almost all historic simulatio
eyewitness accounts of events that define the nation. c-span3, coverage of congress and american history tv. at 3 p.m. eastern today the american enterprise institute will look a survey on american views on k-12 education and some issues being discussed nationally. you can see that live on c-span2. in the meantime on c-span3 we re taking the opportunity while congress is on break to show you some of the american history tv programs that are normally seen only on weekends. at 8:00 p.m. symposium on william f. buckley s view on american conservative. at 9:25 p.m. james baldwin s significance in american political thought. at 10:45 principle ton university president on race in america. on c-span today s announcement by new jersey governor chris christie that he s running for the presidential nomination. you can see his comments beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern. in omaha and in the united states as a city that when you came in if you were black, you needed to keep your head down