Environmental advocates are asking Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to drop her lawsuit against a federal plan to clean up greenhouse gasses. The Florida staff director of the Sierra Club, Frank Jackalone, said his group is not a fan of Governor Rick Scott’s administration, but he praised Scott’s response to the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan.
The EPA’s Clean Power Plan calls for carbon pollution in the U.S. to be reduced by an average of 28% and for each state to be in charge of its own reductions. Florida needs a plan by next year to reduce emissions by 25%. Sean Shaw used to work in the state CFO’s office as insurance consumer advocate. He warns that if greenhouse gas pollution isn’t brought under control the economic consequences in Florida will be severe.
Also at the press conference were the executive director of Florida Council of Churches who spoke about the morals of battling climate change and a small business owner with environmentally-induced asthma, who says cleaning up climate pollution would improve his health.