State Legislature would ban Florida communities from enacting their own climate policies

On the same day President Donald Trump gutted the federal Clean Air Act and promoted coal burning, a legislative committee approved bill to handcuff local climate actions

By Mitch Perry

Florida Phoenix

Local governments would be severely restricted from implementing measures to reduce the effects of climate change under a bill approved Thursday by a Florida House committee.

The measure (HB 1217) comes nearly two years after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation declaring that the state would no longer be required to consider…