DeSantis signs Florida bill downplaying climate crisis and banning offshore wind turbines [Video]

Climate crisis will be a lesser priority in Florida and largely disappear from state statutes under legislation signed on Wednesday by Florida governorRon DeSantis that also bans power-generating wind turbines offshore or near the state’s lengthy coastlines.

The measure, which takes effect on 1 July, also would boost the expansion of gas, reduce regulation on gas pipelines and increase protections against bans on gas appliances such as stoves, according to a news release from the governor’s office.

The Republican governor is casting the bill as a common-sense approach to energy policy.

“Florida rejects the designs of the left to weaken our energy grid, pursue a radical climate agenda, and promote foreign adversaries,” the Republican governor said in a post on the X social media platform.

“The legislation I signed today [will] keep windmills off our beaches, gas in our tanks, and …