“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.”
“Duke Energy gets 90% of its electricity from burning gas or coal,” Maguire said. “They are an extremely dirty and polluting utility, and they essentially get to do that polluting for free because it’s the young people today that are going to deal with a warmer environment and stronger storms and more flooding in the decades to come.”
“I see it as a freedom issue,” said Raymer Maguire, Director of Campaigns and Policy at The CLEO Institute, a Miami-based organization focused on climate education and advocacy. “Every year, Florida is getting a little less free.” SB 180 is Florida’s most expansive preemption law, but it is far from the only one. In the past decade, state lawmakers have passed a spate of prohibitions limiting local control over issues such as firearms, LGBTQ issues and, increasingly, environment and climate regulation.
By rapidly doubling or tripling its solar capacity, OUC could make burning coal unnecessary. Unlike fossil fuels, solar power has no fuel cost, helping protect OUC customers from the price swings that come with natural gas and coal.
“Coal is the most expensive form of electricity”
“And it doesn't make sense when you look at Florida's energy policy of having affordable, reliable, clean energy from diverse sources.“
“One thing that maybe shouldn’t have surprised me but did surprise me in this research, was the nearly 100 lobbyists that these utility companies have in Tallahassee,” Maguire said. “There’s roughly one lobbyist for every one-and a-half legislators.”
“Not only does drilling present the risk of another oil spill, which can devastate our ecosystems and our coastal communities, but it doesn’t make sense to continue to burn fossil fuels that are making our planet warmer and negatively impacting our environments and our coastline,” said Raymer Maguire, the Director of Campaigns and Policy for The CLEO Institute.
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