Thursday, November 12, 2009
Two attorneys for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency out of San Francisco have upset leaders in Washington over a homemade video in which they express their opposition to legislation designed to slow global warming. Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel put up their video on YouTube to explain why they believe the cap-and-trade plan crafted by Democrats will not succeed in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Once an EPA ethics official got wind of the video, Williams and Zabel were ordered to take it down, which they did. The group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility then reposted it to YouTube.
EPA’s top lawyer, Scott Fulton, said his agency is not trying to censor Williams and Zabel because of the content of their video. Rather it has to do with the agency’s ethics policy and the fact that the two attorneys were inappropriately using their positions to push their message, according to Fulton.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
EPA: Video Takedown Order was About Ethics, Not Content (by Darren Goode, CongressDaily)
Cap-and-trade Mirage (by Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, Washington Post)
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