EPA Lawyers: Cap-And-Trade "Fatally Flawed"

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After stifling a report questioning the science behind climate change, the EPA is censoring two of its lawyers for saying the proposed solutions are also problematical. The debate isn't over. It's being suppressed.

In the proud tradition of EPA whistle-blower Alan Carlin, whose leaked study blew the lid off the EPA's hyped and flawed science behind climate change, two EPA lawyers, Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, have produced a Web video titled "A Huge Mistake." In it they say cap-and-trade in general and the Waxman-Markey bill in particular are the wrong answers anyway.

Williams states:

"Cap-and-trade for climate change has been tried in Europe. It produced harmful volatility in energy prices and few greenhouse gas reductions. It raised energy prices for consumers and raised billions in windfall profits for utilities."

Zabel says:

"carbon offsets won't work because they can't be certified or verified as real additional reductions." Williams says carbon offsets are like "subprime mortgages and other clever financial instruments" and similarly "lack integrity."

They compare the mammoth Waxman-Markey bill that includes cap-and-trade provisions to the Challenger disaster, where administrators "refused to listen" to experts who knew better.

They say it and other proposals like it create "perverse incentives" to continue polluting while others trade offsets for fun and huge profits...

[Translation: another scam, again at taxpayer expense.]

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