Senior Republican politicians in the state have opposed federal action against global warming, which is making storms like Hurricane Ian more destructive.
Monday's release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest grim assessment of the trajectory of global warming has been met by a chorus of silence by Republicans in Washington.
In appointing Florida’s first Chief Science Officer and advertising for a Chief Resilience Officer, Gov. Ron DeSantis is turning the page on his predecessor’s head-in-the-sand approach to the climate crisis. We applaud his course correction and offer ideas for an even bolder path.
Florida’s new Republican governor issued a head-spinning executive order calling for a $2.5 billion hike in environmental funding, including increased water-quality monitoring, a purge of septic tanks, and — hang on — a ban on fracking.
