TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday toured flood-ravaged areas of South Florida — and defended his recent move to scrap the state’s climate change goals.
DeSantis toured flooded areas of Hollywood, where he declared a state of emergency Wednesday after parts of the region received more than 20 inches of rain this week. There, he brushed off recent criticism from Democrats for signing a bill last month that struck language directing the state to promote renewable energy and curb greenhouse gas emissions.
“Our energy bill that we did, it wasn’t about saying or not saying ‘climate change,’” DeSantis said Friday. “It was a substantive piece of legislation to say that in the state of Florida our energy policy is going to be driven by affordability for Floridians and reliability.”
After a storm, “We need to get the lights back on,” he continued. “We don’t want our policy driven by climate ideology.”
Some environmentalists say the law was further evidence of Florida’s continued backtracking on climate policy, after being a leader more than 15 years ago under then-Gov. Charlie Crist.
Since taking office in 2019, DeSantis has signed legislation blocking cities from restricting the use of natural gas and has promoted tax breaks on gas stoves in response to initiatives elsewhere curbing their use. He has also criticized the Biden administration for restricting oil drilling and for pushing climate change initiatives.
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1) Is the climate warming?
2) What is “climate ideology?”
3) Why did Project 2025 call to defund NOAA accusing them of “climate alarmism?”
4) What is climate alarmism?
5) Are all the world’s climatologists, NASA and NOAA wrong about climate warming?
6) Is climate warming a “hoax created by the Chinese?”
7) If it’s not happening, why is there so much evidence of its effects
8) Why are scientists conducting so much research on it?
9) Why are DeSantis and Trump reversing efforts to slow warming?
10) Is this only about profits from oil?
11) Must the Governor be a “scientist” to address climate warming? (Rick Scott) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQPbckf5bW4
12) If a Governor must be a scientist to address climate warming, should he also be a doctor/psychologist to address transgenderness?
13) What is “radical global warming, climate change agenda?”
14) Why did Rick Scott prohibit the use of the phrase “climate change?”
15) Why isn’t sea level rise of the “best interest of the state” when most of the populated coast is only slightly above sea level?
Natureboi
Article URL : https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/15/ron-desantis-florida-climate-change-00163504