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Florida, perhaps the most vulnerable state to sea-level rise and extreme weather, is on the verge of repealing what's left of a 16-year-old law that lists climate change as a priority when making ...
The Florida Climate Protection Act of 2008 created the Florida Energy and Climate Commission. It also urged the Department of Environmental Protection to develop a greenhouse gas reduction strategy. Governor Charlie Crist signed several executive orders related to climate change upon taking office. These executive orders included tailpipe ...
Senate Bill 1624 by Sen. Jay Collins, R-Tampa, and House Bill 1645 by Rep. Bobby Payne, R-Palatka, rewrite Florida energy policy to eliminate state goals to address the impacts of climate change ...
For example, the bill specifies that “climate change” vanishes from a section of a law that calls on the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to “advocate for energy and climate ...
A television meteorologist in Florida slammed Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for signing a bill that will remove the requirement for the state to consider climate change when creating energy policy and ...
Florida's Energy, Climate Change, and Economic Security Act of 2008 set a goal of progressively improving recycling to reach a 75 percent rate by the year 2020. It directs public entities (schools, state and local public agencies) to report the amount they recycle annually to their counties.
The bill deletes the phrase ‘climate’ eight times – often in reference to reducing the impacts of global climate change through its energy policy or directing state agencies to buy ...
The concern for climate change control and mitigation has consequently spurred policy makers and scientists to treat energy use and global climate as an inextricable nexus with effects also going in reverse direction [12] and create various initiatives, institutions and think tanks for a high-level treatment of the relationships: