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5 days ago · More than a decade ago, under former Gov. Charlie Crist, Florida implemented several measures aimed at reducing climate-warming emissions, like expanding renewable energy use, and House Bill 1645 undoes what’s left of that policy.
6 days ago · In 2008, a bill to address climate change and promote renewable energy passed unanimously in both legislative chambers and was signed into law by then-Gov. Charlie Crist, at the time a Republican. Former Gov. Rick Scott, now a Republican U.S. senator, took steps after taking the governor’s office in 2011 to undo some of that measure and this ...
6 days ago · On Wednesday, the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, signed the legislation, which is set to go into effect on July 1. The measure also removes most references to climate change in state law, bans...
May 1, 2024 · The legislation reverses the last vestiges of a policy first put in place by then-Republican Gov. Charlie Crist in 2008, which passed unanimously in the Florida legislature. It was meant to account for the effects of climate change and how it could or should affect Florida's energy policy.
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4 days ago · More than a decade ago, under former Gov. Charlie Crist, Florida implemented several measures aimed at reducing climate-warming emissions, like expanding renewable energy use, and House Bill...
May 3, 2024 · If signed, the law would reverse 16 years of state policy, finishing the work started by former Gov. Rick Scott and undoing Gov. Charlie Crist’s signature piece of environmental legislation.
Apr 30, 2024 · A bill waiting to be signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis would strip the term “climate change” from much of state law and reverse a policy then-Gov. Charlie Crist championed as he built a...
