EPA Lawyers Give Honest Assessment Of Cap And Trade Bill, Obama Tells Them To Shut Up
Two EPA lawyers produced this YouTube video pointing out just how bad and misguided the proposed “cap and trade” bills winding through Congress are:
The response from the Obama administration acting through the EPA brass? Well they kindly explained to these two lawyers that they could shut the hell up:
The Environmental Protection Agency has directed two of its lawyers to makes changes to a YouTube video they posted that is critical of the Obama administration’s climate change policy.
The agency, citing federal policies, told the two lawyers, Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, who are married and based in San Francisco, that they could mention their E.P.A. affiliation only once; must remove language specifying Mr. Zabel’s expertise and their years of employment with the agency; and must remove an image of the agency’s office in San Francisco.
They have been told that if they do not edit the video to comply with the policy, they could face disciplinary action.
The video, titled “The Huge Mistake,” was produced and posted in September. But the agency did not issue its warning until The Washington Post published a widely cited opinion article by the couple on Oct. 31 that raised concerns, echoing those in the video, about cap-and-trade legislation that the Obama administration supports.
I guess these are the sort of people Obama said he’d have to “deal with” for questioning global warming dogma.
