E&E News: The Texas conservative plan for Energy and Commerce
by George Cahlink When the Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred in 2010, Texas Republican Rep. Michael Burgess was the ranking member on the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. "We all became junior petroleum engineers in a pretty short period of time, but I was very much on the firing line when Ed Markey and Henry Waxman went after every petroleum…