Bush administration gets religion on the environment, so they say

After systematically destroying our national forests, wetlands and fisheries and trying to destroy the sea coasts and the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, arguing against environmental impact studies in every case, now, the Bush administration decides it's time to worry about environmental impacts and has put a hold on guess what? Solar power.

DENVER — Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years.

I guess it might compete with something they really care about, like oil and coal, the environmental impacts of which they have systematically ignored.