Florida’s Cap & Trade Program May Be Eliminated
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Please do a little research on this matter and then contact your legislators if you think this bill should be passed!
A bill filed by Rep. Scott Plakon, R-Longwood, would eliminate Florida’s greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade program before one was ever adopted. Climate change and regulation of greenhouse gas emissions was a priority of Gov. Charlie Crist soon after he took office in 2007, but it dropped as a priority after 2008. Gov. Rick Scott, who took office last month, said last summer that he didn’t believe in climate change.
HB 4117 by Plakon would eliminate the provision in 2008’s HB 7135 that allowed the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to establish a cap and trade program. Such a program would cap emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases and allow companies to buy and sell emissions credits. DEP was authorized by the 2008 legislation to adopt the rules after Jan. 1, 2010 and submit them to the Legislature for ratification.
Plakon told the Florida Tribune that Crist’s own turn away from the climate change issue and the “climategate” e-mails controversy of 2009 shows that science is unsound. He also said that such a cap-and-trade program would be a job-killing regulation such as those opposed by Scott.
“Until we have a better grasp of the science, I don’t think this belongs in the Florida statutes,” Plakon said.
Read the entire article at: http://fltrib.com/crist-legacy-clmate-change-could-get-permanently-scrapped (scroll down until you see the one titled Crist legacy…..)
Please let Rep. Plakon know you appreciate his efforts in eliminating this matter. His office phone is:Phone: (407) 262-7520 and call your Representative to let them know you support this bill. Find your Rep (if you don’t know it) at www.myfloridahouse.gov/
Cap & Tax Bill May Be Returning…
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The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as an incentive to pass legislation that will severely change the usage of energy in this country; it is being said that the Senate is going to try to pass their version of the bill which passed the House last summer:
H.R. 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. The Senate Bill is numbered S 1733.
More information can be found about it at www.govtrack.us.
The Suwannee Valley Electric Co-op’s website has a good article about this at www.svec-coop.com; right now it is located on the home page and is entitled: “Electricity Needs to Remain Reliable and Affordable”.
Please let your Senators know how you feel about this pending legislation!