Additional articles on environmental issues affecting Florida:
Electric vehicle sales are “hitting new heights” in the U.S. with more than 670,000 EVs sold in just the first half of 2023, David Reichmuth of the Union of Concerned Scientists writes. Florida now ranks second in cumulative EV sales.
The nonprofit research firm First Street Foundation found that climate risks put 39 million U.S. homes in danger of losing their insurance, Grist reports. “There’s this climate insurance bubble out there,” said Jeremy Porter of First Street.
U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor and Andres Jimenez of Green 2.0 write about new environmental justice grants in the Tampa Bay area: "Unless we move quickly to lower the cost of clean energy and invest in conservation, extremely hot, humid days will only get worse and more expensive for those who can least afford it.”
