A bill backed by the speaker of the Florida House would also make wide-ranging changes to state energy policies.
A bill advancing through the Florida Legislature with the backing of the House speaker would delete the majority of references to climate change in state law.
House Bill 1645 would enact wide-ranging changes to Florida’s energy policy, something Speaker Paul Renner, R-Palm Coast, has said is needed to ensure state residents’ power is reliable and affordable.
In the process, the bill would delete eight times the phrase “climate change” is mentioned in current law (compared to seven instances where it would be left untouched). Sometimes, the phrase is deleted from sentences that are otherwise left mostly intact. In other cases, the bill would repeal entire sections of law that mention climate change, such as a grant program that helps local governments and school districts reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The bill would also reduce certain regulations on natural gas pipelines, preempt local governments’ control over the location of natural gas storage facilities and make it so state agencies and local governments no longer have to consider fuel efficiency when buying vehicles, among other changes.
Should the denial of federal funding for the inevitable sea wall be hundreds of pages of redacted text? It’s a conundrum.
Florida will just issue a restraining order on the Atlantiv Ocean.
Fucking LOL.
The epitome of burying your head in the sand. If you don’t talk about it, it must not be real! Delusional idiots.
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Florida really is the “hold my beer” state.
lol rights disappearing faster than the florida coastline.
Don’t look up.
Florida Man at it again.
One wonders if Florida will ever see the end of men lining up to do the stupidest shit.
In due time. Florida is running under the assumption that the climate gives a shit what they say
Realistically it’s probably more like “rile up the base and the consequences don’t really hit until after my term of office is up”
In an ironic twist, the only current mention of climate change in Florida law is a non-binding resolution declaring climate change is a woke conspiracy.
They now proudly refuse vaccines to die of COVID, oppose legislation that would benefit them, and now Florida Republicans evidently want to live underwater. Destroying themselves is so hot right now on the right.
It’s like a kid throwing a fit when their parents make them eat some vegetables and threatening to hold their breath until they pass out.
That’s okay. A lot of it will be underwater anyway.
They should start putting up the sea barriers along the border Georgia now
The Georgia Dykestones.
“Why do we have category 6 hurricanes now?”
That’s just conspiracy therory hot air. /s
Thanks, Obama.
The woke mob /s
Soo… What if we just replaced the term “climate change” with hurricanium?
I would be behind that, just because it would be funny to read.
Freedom! This will help rising Insurance Rates brought on by NOT Climate Change!
They think they can just wash it away huh?
The irony.
If you don’t test for it, it doesn’t exist.
