Recently in Environment Category

Delaware moved a step closer to a "carbon tax" on electricity generating plants Friday, part of its effort to comply with a regional pact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Opinions varied widely during a planning meeting near New Castle over how to justify, collect and use the $35 million to $40 million that could be generated annually under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

Of course, the simplest answer will elude these geniuses - if you have trouble figuring out how to "justify, collect and use" a tax, then maybe that tax is - dare I say it - unnecessary?

If Rat Island had oil under it, would the environmentalists (and the left) be blocking this?

State and federal wildlife biologists are gearing up for an assault on the rats of still-uninhabited Rat Island, hoping to exterminate them with rat poison dropped from helicopters. If they succeed, the birds will sing again on Rat Island. And it will be the third-largest island in the world to be made rat-free.

Just askin'.