DeSantis signs Florida bill making climate change a lesser state priority
Source: ABC News
Climate change will be a lesser priority in Florida and largely disappear from state statutes under legislation signed Wednesday by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that also bans power-generating wind turbines offshore or near the state's lengthy coastline.
Critics said the measure made law by the former Republican presidential hopeful ignores the reality of climate change threats in Florida, including projections of rising seas, extreme heat and flooding and increasingly severe storms.
It takes effect July 1 and would also boost expansion of natural gas, reduce regulation on gas pipelines in the state and increase protections against bans on gas appliances such as stoves, according to a news release from the governor's office.
DeSantis, who suspended his presidential campaign in January and later endorsed his bitter rival Donald Trump, called the bill a common-sense approach to energy policy.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/desantis-amid-criticism-signs-florida-bill-making-climate-110278246
NoMoreRepugs
(9,665 posts)KPN
(15,722 posts)BOSSHOG
(37,377 posts)Conservatives use it when they know the idea is incredibly wrong and its effects wont be fully known until they are out of their current job. The masses will bob their heads and say hell yeah, thats what we need, common sense.
bringthePaine
(1,788 posts)Takket
(21,896 posts)hope they appreciate their governor making the problem even worse.
JoseBalow
(3,094 posts)Kind of like the way Florida will largely disappear beneath the sea
sakabatou
(42,330 posts)"Lalalala! I can't hear you!"
Bucky
(54,248 posts)Maybe this is how Florida should handle it's meth, fentanyl, gun violence, and alligator problems.
Maybe that's how I'll handle my problems!
- "Bucky, it's your landlord!!! The rent was due 2 weeks ago!"
- "Sorry, chief, but that's a lesser priority to me now"
mahina
(17,929 posts)Try some of that magic when insurance companies stop writing policies in the sunshine state.
raccoon
(31,176 posts)Timeflyer
(2,143 posts)mpcamb
(2,901 posts)on the state tab, huge increases in home insurance, sending troops out of state, etc.
Rub Florida republican noses in it.
kimbutgar
(21,492 posts)He is such an evil jerk!
KPN
(15,722 posts)CTyankee
(64,018 posts)that? Geez...