Florida Eliminates Climate Change Provisions From State Law
By Naveen Athrappully
5/20/2024
lorida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that removes “climate change” as a key focus in state laws, promotes the use of natural gas, and curtails offshore wind power projects.
- Florida is supposed to “recognize and address the potential of global climate change wherever possible.”
- The Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services must engage in advocating “climate change issues.”
- “The impacts of global climate change can be reduced through the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.”
- Florida is “positioned at the front line against potential impacts of global climate change.”
- “A single government entity with a specific focus on energy and climate change is both desirable and advantageous.”
State agencies were required to procure such products if prices were comparable. By striking down this provision, agencies are no longer obligated to refer to the Florida Climate-Friendly Preferred Products List and buy products that fall under the category.
The bill also removes a “Green Lodging” provision that mandated agencies to choose for meetings only hotels or conference facilities that have received such a designation from the Department of Environmental Protection.
In addition to removing climate change provisions from Florida law, HB 1645 strengthens laws protecting the use of natural gas in the state.
It sets up limitations on how local governments can regulate natural gas resiliency and reliability infrastructure. The infrastructure is maintained by public utilities to temporarily deploy natural gas reserves when there is a power system outage or natural disaster.
The bill eliminates a rule requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to consider the development of renewable energy resources and a reduction in dependence on resources such as oil and natural gas when making long-term forecasts of energy supply and demand.
The minimum length of an intrastate natural gas pipeline that requires certification has been extended from 15 miles to 100 miles.
HB 1645 prohibits the construction or expansion of offshore wind energy facilities in the state. This rule bans wind turbines or energy facilities within one mile of the Florida coastline, within one mile of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway or Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, and on state waters and submerged lands.
The bill directs the Public Service Commission to study and evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of using advanced nuclear power technologies to fulfill the state’s power needs.
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Comment by Penny Gray on May 22, 2024 at 10:49am
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I'll never move to Florida, but I wonder if DeSantis could be bribed to move to Maine and run for governor here? We need much more common sense and reality if we are to survive into the future.
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This article highlights what is totally lacking in most of New England. Common Sense and Reality in Energy Policy.
Maine as Third World Country:
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
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