“genCLEO Action is proud to endorse Annette Taddeo as a climate champion because we know she will stand up to (the) state’s largest polluters while advocating for more clean energy and the protection of our natural resources.”
Tracking from the nonprofit group The CLEO Institute found that Donalds has received $1.79 million in campaign contributions from Florida’s major power utilities while in office. He is the state’s second-highest recipient.
"It was really important to us for this to not feel like it could be an entity influenced by outside forces and it would really be a voter-led utility," said Raymer Maguire, who works on campaigns at The CLEO Institute, a Florida climate change advocacy group.
The use of clean energy is expanding and continuing to get cheaper. This fact flies in the face of the arguments bill proponents made that transitioning to clean energy costs taxpayers more, when the reality is the opposite.
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