On Friday, TCS joined with 35 other organizations, representing a wide array of interests from poultry farmers and fast food restaurants to the boating industry and federal taxpayers, to send a letter urging Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) to hold a hearing on the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). The groups argued that as Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Energy & Commerce, which has jurisdiction over the RFS, the Congressmen should immediately call a hearing to examine the broken program. Doing so would simply mirror a host of legislative actions made by Members of the House to address the program that mandates certain levels of ethanol and advanced biofuels be blended into gasoline.

The full text of the letter is below: