EPA attorneys critical of cap-and-trade are asked by the agency to keep objections private

Two EPA attorneys who publicly criticized "cap-and-trade" as "fatally flawed" in both a YouTube video and a Washington Post op-ed have been told by the agency to remove or edit their video, entitled "The Huge Mistake."

EPA also said that the attorneys, Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, would have to get prior approval for any outside writing projects they did.

Williams and Zabel say the solution to controlling carbon emissions is a system of fees and rebates, and that a cap-and-trade scheme, as written in the bill currently under consideration, locks us into our current pattern of climate degradation for approximately twenty years. They recently appeared on Democracy Now! to discuss their experiences with EPA and their views on climate change policy. The video is below.