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| Environment Florida today launched a new campaign calling on congressional candidates to support policies to move America beyond oil and toward a cleaner energy future. | |
| TALLAHASSEE - Today, with the support of Florida Senator Bill Nelson, the Senate passed a bipartisan energy bill that, if enacted, represents the first time in more than thirty years that Congress has acted to increase fuel economy. “After more than thirty years, Congress is finally poised to reduce our dangerous oil addiction,” said Environment Florida director Mark Ferrulo. | |
| Environment Florida today congratulated State Senator Ron Klein, who will represent Florida’s 22nd district in the U.S. Congress next year, for supporting the New Energy Future platform to move America beyond fossil fuels and toward a cleaner energy future. | |
| FORT LAUDERDALE -- A new report by Environment Florida finds that the automobile fuel economy provision in the Senate energy bill would save Florida consumers over $1.6 billion dollars at the pump in 2020, reduce oil consumption by over 74,000 barrels per day and would be the equivalent of taking nearly nine hundred thousand cars off the road. | |
| Environment Florida today unveiled the top ten best opportunities to move America beyond fossil fuels and toward a cleaner, more secure energy future. | |
| The 110th Congress made a down payment on a new energy future. With the help of many Florida Representatives, the House voted to pass “The C.L.E.A.N. Energy Act of 2007” (H.R. 6). The bill reinvests more than $14 billion in handouts to Big Oil in energy efficient technologies and renewable power. | |
| Senator Bill Nelson and Representatives Brown, Castor, Hastings, Wasserman-Schultz and Wexler of Florida’s Congressional delegation voted for the environment 100% of the time in the 110th Congress, according to the annual Congressional Scorecard on major environmental issues released today by Environment Florida. | |
| The Florida Senate is expected to take up a wide-ranging energy bill on Wednesday that environmental advocates say has the potential to significantly change the state’s energy policy. | |
