Gov. Ron DeSantis calls it a crackdown on "radical climate policies."

A new state law limits Florida communities’ aims to offset greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the global climate and intensifying disasters such as hurricanes.

Specifically, HB 1217 prohibits local governments from pursuing net-zero emissions goals. At least 10 cities and counties have implemented such policies, including Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Orlando, and Leon County, where Tallahassee, the state capital, is located. But the new law will not necessarily upend these policies, said Bradley Marshall, senior attorney at Earthjustice, an advocacy group.

“It’s certainly meant to scare municipalities and local governments from trying to do things to further net-zero policies,” he said. “Now, its exact impact and what it exactly prohibits is probably up for some debate. Things that are adjacent to it—emissions reductions and even climate change reduction policies—on their face will not run afoul at all of a ban on adopting a net zero policy.”

  • CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Even right-wingers in the UK aren’t this blasé about it. Murica is a very weird place where folk don’t seem to get punished electorally for being an asshole.

    • Jack@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Murica is a very weird place where folk don’t seem to get punished electorally for being an asshole.

      “Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses, and American universities - and they are elected by American citizens.

      This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, […] you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders.” – George Carlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBrbXOmnW70

      See how few vote for ethical people like Nader, the Greens, …

    • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Reform has scrapping net zero as one of its main campaign points at local and national level.

      Not that it’s limited to the right wing. The prime mover in the Government considering scrapping its ban on new North Sea drilling is from the unions pressuring them to do so.