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| "President Obama is delivering on his promise, putting Florida on track to a cleaner transportation future by investing in high speed rail," said Environment Florida Advocate Adam Rivera. "By making these investments now, America will be able to travel on these clean, sleek, fast trains within a decade, saving oil and reducing global warming pollution." | |
| "Dramatically ramping up electric vehicles can bolster America’s efforts to wean ourselves off of oil, to reduce pollution that causes global warming, and improve air quality" said Environment Florida's Sarah Bucci. | |
| Congress must pass a strong clean energy and climate bill this spring, and global leaders must work quickly towards a fair, ambitious and binding deal in the months to come. | |
| The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today will finalize its proposed finding that carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations, setting the stage for regulating the pollutants under the Clean Air Act. The announcement comes as world leaders kick off two weeks of negotiations in Copenhagen on a global climate treaty. | |
| As the Environmental Protection Agency considers regulating old, clunker power plants, Florida continues to burn coal, the dirtiest of all fuels, for most of its electricity supply. According to a new analysis of government data released today by Environment Florida, the state ranks 3rd nationwide for most pollution from power plants. | |
| "It's time to unleash the power of clean energy to transform our economy and reduce global warming pollution," said Environment Florida Advocate Adam Rivera. "While we need to do more to capture the potential of clean energy, the House-passed bill is an essential step forward to get us where we need to go." | |
| "People are voting with their feet by driving less and taking more public transportation," said Sarah Bucci with Environment Florida. "Congress should listen to these voters and invest more in public transportation, which will increase our energy independence and reduce global warming pollution." | |
| The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today approved the Clean Air Act waiver that 13 states and the District of Columbia needs to implement its program to reduce global warming pollution from passenger vehicles. | |
| Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Ocala) offered an amendment that would undermine America’s opportunity to unleash the power of clean energy to transform our economy and protect our environment, according to Environment Florida. The amendment to the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) would have allowed power companies to reduce the amount of truly clean renewable energy they would be required to produce by one-fifth nationwide, by giving credit for the power generated by nuclear power plants. | |
| “This is a pragmatic bill that tries to balance a historic opportunity to unleash clean energy to rebuild our economy and stop the climate crisis, with the diversity of views on the Energy & Commerce Committee,” said Environment Florida Advocate Adam Rivera. | |
| Environment Florida applauded the Obama Administration for moving quickly to confront global warming. The Obama Administration directed the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its decision to block states from implementing the Clean Cars Program. | |
| Environment Florida applauds the Florida Environmental Regulation Commission for taking strong action to stop global warming by voting to adopt the Clean Cars Program, a critical part of Governor Crist's Executive Orders to curb global warming emissions. | |
| Environment Florida submitted a letter signed by 40 environmental organizations calling on Florida environmental officials to stand up against the auto industry and follow through on Governor Crist’s plans to adopt the California Clean Cars Program. | |
| Many alternative fuels designed to wean America off of oil will cause a whole host of other problems and increase global warming emissions, according to a report released today by Environment Florida. | |
| Today, the Florida House of Representatives voted for an amendment to a wide-ranging energy bill that would delay adoption of one of Governor Crist’s key climate change initiatives, the Clean Cars program to reduce global warming pollution from new cars and trucks sold in Florida. | |
| On Wednesday December 19th, EPA administrator Stephen Johnson announced that he was denying a waiver for California allowed under the Clean Air Act for that state, and by extension all states including Florida, to tackle one of the largest and fastest growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions – cars and trucks. | |
| SARASOTA—Scientists have said for years that global warming was “loading the dice” when it comes to increasing the frequency of severe storms, and a new Environment Florida report makes it clear that the Sarasota-Bradenton area is already experiencing extreme downpours much more frequently. Specifically, the new report found that storms with heavy rainfall are now 95% percent more frequent in the Sarasota-Bradenton area than they were 60 years ago. | |
| Environment Florida released a new analysis documenting the benefits of implementing the Clean Cars Program in Florida. | |
| The average temperature in cities across Florida, including Jacksonville, Gainesville, Miami, Tampa and West Palm Beach, increased more than 0.5° F above average in 2006, according to a new report released today by Environment Florida. The report comes one week after Governor Crist signed a series of executive orders aimed at dramatically reducing Florida’s global warming pollution. | |
| Governor Charlie Crist is poised to sign a series of Executive Orders to adopt proactive and ambitious goals for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in Florida. One of the orders specifically calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. Florida would be the largest state on the east coast and the first state in the southeast to adopt such aggressive goals. | |
| Governor Crist has sent a clear signal that renewable energy, energy conservation and reducing global warming pollution are his top priorities. For far too long, Florida’s energy policy has focused on building expensive, polluting fossil fuel power plants, instead of investing in energy efficiency and clean energy sources like solar, wind and bio-fuels. | |
| On the same day that two Florida Senate committees will vote on legislation that addresses global warming, a new Environment Florida report finds that global warming pollution in Florida increased by 37% between 1990 and 2004. | |
| Approximately 20-30 percent of plant and animal species are at increasing risk of extinction if the global average temperature increases by another 2.2 to 4 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a major consensus report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). | |
| On Friday, April 6, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global body charged with assessing the scientific record on global warming, is expected to issue the second volume of its Fourth Assessment Report on global warming. | |
| Environment Florida applauded Representatives Corrine Brown, Kathy Castor, Alcee Hastings, Ron Klein, Kendrick Meek, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Robert Wexler for cosponsoring the Safe Climate Act, federal legislation introduced today to fight global warming. | |
| This year’s unprecedented heat wave is part of a broader trend of rising temperatures across the country, according to a new report released today by Environment Florida. | |
| Wednesday night, in the final days of California’s legislative session, Governor Schwarzenegger and the State Legislature reached an agreement on California’s historic global warming bill, The Global Warming Solutions Act, AB32 (Nunez/Pavley). | |
| TAMPA—Standing in front of a 20-foot, inflated model of the earth in Vinoy Park today, the Florida Public Interest Research Group (Florida PIRG) called for action to reduce global warming pollution from current levels within 10 years. | |
| Energy companies are planning to build over 150 coal-fired power plants in locations across the United States, including six here in Florida, according to a new report released by Environment Florida. | |
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