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.”
You’ll find your conversations much more effective when you don’t begin them by being patronizing. My point is that neither party has been able to solve our problems.
Yeah but the"far left" has never once been given the chance to try.
You’ll find your conversations much less patronizing when you don’t begin them by being loudly wrong. Aside from being wrong about one of the two major parties in the US being “far left,” you’re also wrong that neither has been able to solve problems. You don’t see blue states lining up to make renewable energy illegal. It’s not Democrats making mandatory water breaks for construction workers during summer illegal. Republicans consistently make life worse for their constituents. I’m not gonna sit here and pretend the Dems are even remotely perfect, but you have to be genuinely delusional to look at red states and blue states side by side and say neither party is solving problems. Even at the city level, New York City is famously fixing lots of problems recently after electing an extremely popular Democratic Socialist.