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| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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). | |
| President Bush and Congress can reduce our dependence on oil and help stop global warming by taking these actions | |
| TALLAHASSEE—On this Earth Day, Florida PIRG called on Congress and the Bush administration to get serious about ending America’s dependence on oil. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
