Environmentalists are always coming up with creative ways to sell their radical and costly agenda.

Ranging from renewable portfolio standards to direct subsidies of solar installations and even state-level cap-and-trade programs, the laundry list of “solutions” to our “global climate crisis” always seems to rely on the heavy hand of government, whether it’s through higher taxes, central planning, or regulations that raise costs on consumers who can least afford it. Recently, though, environmentalist rent-seekers got a little more creative through the creation of a program called Property-Assessed Clean Energy (PACE).