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| 2010-01-20 | |
| Plug-in vehicles have the potential to make an immediate difference in reducing air pollution and curbing dependence on oil. Over the long term, plug-ins can play a critical role in the effort to stop global warming. The technology needed to build workable plug-in vehicles exists today, but it will take a coherent strategy and concerted action in order to take full advantage of the potential of plug-in vehicles. | |
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| 2009-11-24 | |
| Our long-time dependence on fossil fuels is a threat to our future. It wreaks havoc on our environment by polluting our air, land, and water; and it puts our entire economy at risk due to our reliance on imports from unfriendly parts of the world. Most importantly, it fuels global warming—the most profound environmental problem of our time, with ever growing impacts that will impose threats to our safety and immense financial cost on our society. Power plants are the single largest source of U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the main pollutant that fuels global warming. | |
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| 2009-11-12 | |
| America’s reliance on fossil fuels—oil, coal and natural gas—for energy creates a host of problems, including air and water pollution, global warming pollution, high and unpredictable bills for consumers and businesses, and the need to import oil from unstable parts of the world. Moving to clean energy—such as solar and wind power, more efficient homes, and plug-in cars—will cut pollution, help rebuild our economy, and reduce America’s dependence on oil. | |
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| 2009-09-28 | |
| The ACES Act is a clear step in the right direction and, if passed into law, will result in significant improvements in the energy efficiency of the American economy and our use of clean energy – helping to reinvigorate America's economy and prepare the nation for the serious energy challenges it faces in the decades to come. | |
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| 2009-09-22 | |
| This report details the dramatic growth of public transportation in 2008, and the corresponding energy and environmental benefits. These details are viewed in light of fewer miles driven in most states last year. It also documents transit growth across the country continuing into this year, highlights future potential benefits and outlines ways to improve the state of public transportation. | |
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| 2008-07-17 | |
| The growing threat of global warming, air and water pollution, and rising energy costs are a few of the many problems that result from our current over-reliance on petroleum-based transportation fuels. Alternative transportation fuels, in conjunction with an array of other energy-related strategies, have the potential to help mitigate these problems—if public policy prioritizes those fuels that can deliver the greatest benefit for the environment and the American people. | |
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| 2007-12-04 | |
| 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, this new report finds that storms with heavy rainfall are now 95% percent more frequent in the Sarasota-Bradenton area than they were 60 years ago. | |
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| 2007-07-24 | |
| 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 less than one week after Governor Crist signed a series of executive orders aimed at dramatically reducing Florida’s global warming pollution. | |
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| 2007-07-12 | |
| Florida does not need any new coal-fired power plants to have a reliable electricity supply. Instead, the state’s growing need for electricity can be met through a combination of energy efficiency measures and renewable energy technologies. | |
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| 2007-04-12 | |
| This report examines trends in U.S. global warming pollution nationally and by state, including Florida, and concludes that failure to limit emissions nationwide has allowed global warming pollution to grow out of control. | |
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| 2006-10-04 | |
| To examine how these recent temperature patterns compare with temperatures over the last 30 years, Environment Florida’s researchers analyzed temperature data from 255 major weather stations in all 50 states and Washington, DC for the years 2000-2005 and the first six months of 2006. This recent data was compared to “normal” temperatures for the three decades spanning 1971-2000. | |
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| 2006-08-24 | |
| Extensive scientific evidence demonstrates that global warming is real, that it is affecting us now, and that human activities—particularly the burning of fossil fuels—are the primary cause. | |
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| 2006-07-20 | |
| Energy companies are planning to build over 150 coal-fired power plants, including six in Florida, in locations across the United States, most of them powered by dirty, last-generation technologies that would dramatically increase global warming emissions and pose energy security and economic problems. | |
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| 2006-06-20 | |
| The early effects of global warming are already evident across the United States and worldwide. The year 2005 was the warmest on record. Left unchecked, temperatures will continue to rise, and the effects of global warming will become more severe. | |
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