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Summary
- The Miami Herald reported a forecast for a record-breaking hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean, with 17 to 25 named storms predicted and clear links made to climate change.
- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed bills limiting solutions to global warming, despite facing threats from high temperatures and vulnerability to climate change in his state.
- The battle over climate change policy extends beyond Florida to the federal level, with far-right plans to undo climate progress, highlighting the urgency for political action to combat climate change denial.
Key passage:
The Florida governor, who is waging a battle against climate justice as part of his culture wars, isn’t even the biggest threat to curbing climate change. He controls legislation in only one state. If Donald Trump captures the White House, the entire nation will fall even further behind in tackling the climate. Far-right shills for oil and gas companies have an ambitious battle plan in place to begin undoing the modest climate progress that the federal government has made. It’s called Project 2025 and is a brazen call “to deconstruct the Administrative State” on Day 1 of a Republican—read Trump—Presidency.
Like the hardliners who are openly articulating their doomsday plan, Trump has made no secret of where his allegiances lie, unabashedly demanding a billion dollars in campaign funding from oil and gas companies. At a now-infamous April 2024 Mar-a-Lago dinner, Trump directly solicited financial help from fossil fuel executives in exchange for more than $100 billion worth of tax breaks that President Joe Biden has proposed repealing.
The grift was so clearly a quid pro quo, so openly veering on extortion, that some Senators have now launched an inquiry into Trump’s statements.
Read the full post at CounterPunch.
