Florida’s New GOP Conservation Governor? Time Will Tell

Climate change may get less attention in Florida under incoming Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) than other environmental issues, but he has vowed to tackle toxic algal blooms, offshore drilling, and fracking. Just not greenhouse gases.

“Environmentalists have some optimism,” Susan Glickman, Florida director for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Action Fund, told Bloomberg Environment on Jan. 7.

The new governor’s campaign commitments, a pending youth climate action lawsuit, and a new Democratic agriculture commissioner could help advance carbon emission reductions, she said.

A two-term congressman from the Sunshine State who won President Donald Trump’s endorsement in ...