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submitted 4 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] pageflight@lemmy.world 69 points 4 months ago

Climate change could remove the majority of mentions of Florida from states.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 months ago

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

[-] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

It'll become the next Venice and Venice will become the next Atlantis

[-] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] normanwall@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago

This will really help the Home Insurance crisis

[-] Volkditty@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 20 points 4 months ago

Let’s privatize hurricane and flood aid to them as a result. Maybe Disney will trickle down some of their wealth to the victims?

[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 9 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago

What wealth? Disney is on course to go off a cliff

[-] Hegar@kbin.social 17 points 4 months ago

lol rights disappearing faster than the florida coastline.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

“Why do we have category 6 hurricanes now?”

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Thanks, Obama.

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

The woke mob /s

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's just conspiracy therory hot air. /s

[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago

The Atlantic Ocean could remove the majority of land area of Florida from American coastlines.

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 11 points 4 months ago

Should the denial of federal funding for the inevitable sea wall be hundreds of pages of redacted text? It's a conundrum.

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Florida will just issue a restraining order on the Atlantiv Ocean.

[-] Pratai@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 months ago

The irony of one of the firsts casualties of catastrophic global warming wants to deny it’s going to happen.

[-] books@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago
[-] Bobmighty@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

I fucking hate living in this damned state. A state of hicks and psycho narcissists. All governed by a high heeled fascist fucktard. Go ahead and pretend climate change isn't a thing to please your hicks. This coming summer is going to be a whole lot of egg beaten into all of our godamn faces.

Fuck you Florida.

[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 8 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 months ago

That's okay. A lot of it will be underwater anyway.

[-] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

Hahaha 🤣 so when (not if) they sink under the waves, we can attribute it to god.

Meaning you musta did something to piss god off.

Meaning fuck you Florida GOP.

[-] eddietrax@dmv.social 6 points 4 months ago

Florida really is the “hold my beer” state.

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

Florida Man at it again.

One wonders if Florida will ever see the end of men lining up to do the stupidest shit.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In due time. Florida is running under the assumption that the climate gives a shit what they say

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

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”

[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

So, if the coastal cities build everything watertight right now, the state of Florida can become Rapture

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Nah, Rapture banned Christianity

[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Once they realize Christianity isn't actually compatible with their hate train rhetoric, they'll shed it off too in the name of Freedome

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

It isn't compatible? Because as far as I can tell historically and in text it works fine with fascism

[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

"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.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

"And those enemies of mine slay them and heap them at my feet"

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Feckers will be under water soon enough.

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

They think they can just wash it away huh?

The irony.

[-] acetanilide@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

If you don't test for it, it doesn't exist.

[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 4 points 4 months ago

Don't look up.

[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 4 points 4 months ago

“Sorry, this relief money is tied to climate change, you don’t have that here.”

[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Freedom! This will help rising Insurance Rates brought on by NOT Climate Change!

[-] Pogogunner@kbin.social 3 points 4 months ago

They should start putting up the sea barriers along the border Georgia now

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

The Georgia Dykestones.

[-] Declamatie@mander.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

Have fun with your hurricanes!

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Florida is a shit hole, we should physically chop it off from the NA continent and float it out to sea. Bye Felicia.

[-] Uvine_Umbra@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Soo... What if we just replaced the term "climate change" with hurricanium?

[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I would be behind that, just because it would be funny to read.

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