Posted on 04/21/2022 11:25:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida utilities would gradually increase their electricity to 100% renewable by 2050 under a proposed rule unveiled Thursday by the state’s agriculture commissioner.
The proposed rule is an outgrowth of a lengthy court battle involving dozens of young people who claim Florida is violating their constitutional rights by continuing to promote use of fossil fuels that drive climate change. Similar lawsuits have been filed in other states.
The rule announced by Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, a Democratic candidate for governor this year, came following pressure from young people represented by the nonprofit Our Children’s Trust who filed a petition seeking the proposal. It’s the first of this magnitude in Florida, which is particularly vulnerable to climate impacts such as coastal flooding, stronger hurricanes and excessive heat.
Although the rule is not final and could face several challenges, Fried said it is “a monumental first step” in curbing climate-altering greenhouse gases that flow from utilities when they burn coal and natural gas.
“This is one of the most urgent issues of our time,” Fried said at a news conference in Miami. “We can’t afford to deny this reality and the urgency of what is happening to our state.”
The rule petition was signed by more than 200 young people, including 22-year-old Delaney Reynolds. She said at the news conference Thursday that the rule is a start at tackling one of the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions in power plants.
“Today, Florida can begin to address the core causes of climate change,” Reynolds said. “We have no time to waste.”
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Next up. A later bedtime law and free ice cream.
Sigh, even a sane state such as Florida, eh? The ONLY solution that will give us reliable power is nuclear.
Period.
She’s a commie, Jim
I want everyone to have a pony by 2050.
The Agriculture commissioner Nikki Fried....put into office by Brenda Snipes and the other corrupt Democrat who ran the vote count Palm Beach county. She has very little real power and will likely be bounced out of office in the next election.
Incidentally, it was this theft of an election that directly led to Ron Desantis tossing these two corrupt Democrats out in Broward and Palm Beach counties. The last election ran very smoothly without them.
Ag Commissioner has too much power in FL.
It’s not ‘Florida’ - it’s just one insane democrat, running for election.
agriculture commissioner? So we grow our power? Let me guess the ag commissioner is a dem.
This is an idiotic article. She is not governor.
The premise of the lawsuit is insane.
What does this moron smoke or inject?
Why is this the purview of the vegetable & fruit czar?
Who says we’re not considering nuclear? Also, there are new technologies that are coming out to make things like solar more efficient (forget about wind) and possibly even developing the ocean as a source of power.
And if that fails...Florida has a lot of petroleum available in the Gulf and we can always tell the pols to shut their ever-loving mouths and let us make life good for people.
I would be interested to see the proof of their hypothesis!
Guess who issues concealed carry in FL.
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“Who says we’re not considering nuclear?”
Who is “we”? The Dems are against nuclear power and also hydroelectric power, even though both are sustainable forms of energy.
Don’t you love how the Asspress promoted that idiot to represent all of Florida.
First thing she did in office was to plaster her mug on every gas pump in Florida, on the certification seal, which was enlarged to twice the size it had been when it was just the seal of the State of Florida......
I bet she regrets that, now........................
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