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.
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.
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.
Florida really is the “hold my beer” state.
That’s okay. A lot of it will be underwater anyway.
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.
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”
This will really help the Home Insurance crisis
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.
Let’s privatize hurricane and flood aid to them as a result. Maybe Disney will trickle down some of their wealth to the victims?
100%. Stop letting dumfukian states come begging the fed for aid then pissing all over the hand that feeds AND the problem. Tie aid packages to requirements to get with the program, sending them a bill in 2 years (or whatever)with interest if they don’t.
What wealth? Disney is on course to go off a cliff
Freedom! This will help rising Insurance Rates brought on by NOT Climate Change!
So, if the coastal cities build everything watertight right now, the state of Florida can become Rapture
Nah, Rapture banned Christianity
Once they realize Christianity isn’t actually compatible with their hate train rhetoric, they’ll shed it off too in the name of Freedome
It isn’t compatible? Because as far as I can tell historically and in text it works fine with fascism
“Return evil for evil to no one”
“Love your neighbor as yourself”
“Love your enemies and those persecuting you”
etc.
people cherry pick Jesus driving out the merchants from the temple as an excuse to go on a full on jihad with everything they don’t like, ignoring everything else he said and did.
Republicans very much will kick away religion if it helps them stay in power.
“Why do we have category 6 hurricanes now?”
Thanks, Obama.
The woke mob /s
They think they can just wash it away huh?
The irony.
If you don’t test for it, it doesn’t exist.
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.
Climate change could remove the majority of mentions of Florida from states.
its specially ironic since florida is a paved over swamp.
i bet it will be the first us state to be underwater because of climate change
It’ll become the next Venice and Venice will become the next Atlantis
