Florida, every mention
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every year anyone Stephen Lacey 42Emily Pontecorvo 7Michael Grunwald 6Miranda Green 5Brady Seals 3Jeff St. John 1Jake Jurowicz 1Eric Wesoff 1Andrew Beebe 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Florida comes up
Did someone just figure out how to project finance nuclear?
- ▶ 24:19 Jake Jurowicz Four loop PWRs in a shipyard down in Jacksonville, Florida, and float them up to New Jersey for PSAG, and they actually licensed this.
AI-fueled geothermal and ‘the edge of the possible’
- ▶ 35:22 Andrew Beebe Uh, even with like Florida real estate, we have a stranded asset problem, you know,
Making sense of advanced nuclear’s stumbles
- ▶ 43:24 Eric Wesoff Florida, Turkey Point in Florida is, is, has a license granted for two new reactors, but they're not building them because they're, they're, they're flinchy about the cost.
Why electric cars are driving the auto strikes
- ▶ 29:09 Stephen Lacey And last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis traveled to Texas to give a big speech on energy, and he was flanked by oil rigs. 3 times in the scene
America’s historic climate law, one year on
- ▶ 36:01 Jeff St. John So the big kind of multiplier value there, which has been proven out by some of the state and county level green banks out there, Connecticut, New York being some of the earliest and biggest, as well as a solar loan fund in Florida, um,…
What’s driving a surge in renewables opposition?
- ▶ 19:37 Miranda Green We first started digging into this story because we hired a reporter, um, who had, you know, is a local Miami-based reporter, and he had heard about this ghost candidate scandal that had been going around in Florida at the time. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:42 Stephen Lacey What about for the renewables industry for policies promoting clean energy in states like Florida and Alabama? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:16 Miranda Green Florida, I guess it's a purple state, but redder states like Florida and definitely red states like Alabama are no longer trusting, you know, national news sites like the New York Times and the Washington Post and insert, you know,… 2 times in the scene
A surprising history of gas stove pollution
- ▶ 13:33 Brady Seals Much of the South, and especially the Southeast, is already electrified, and we see that across the country, one in four homes is already all electric, um, and I've seen this too, and in our study, we looked at Florida, for example, and we… 3 times in the scene
The Ike Dike: the biggest civil engineering project in US history
- ▶ 0:11 Stephen Lacey A few weeks ago, we ran an episode about how poor planning has put Floridians in harm's way of stronger hurricanes, like Hurricane Ian.
- ▶ 21:49 Stephen Lacey I mean, in like the last five years, we've seen multiple 100 year storms hitting Florida.
The ‘ecological ponzi scheme’ putting Florida at risk
- ▶ 0:25 Stephen Lacey Mike Grunewald is an energy and climate journalist who lives in South Florida, and he loves it there, but he also loves to poke at Florida's poor planning, and in 2017 he wrote a piece for Politico about Cape Coral, the boomtown built on… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30 Stephen Lacey Cape Coral is a city of a couple 100,000 people in southwest Florida.
- ▶ 2:45 Stephen Lacey And he wanted to understand the mentality of Floridians who were flocking there and buying houses.
- ▶ 4:45 Stephen Lacey This week, a tale of two cities in Florida. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:30 Stephen Lacey Now, Mike is an unapologetic Floridian. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:11 unnamed speaker Rescuers struggled to reach people stranded by the floodwaters that Ian left behind after raking the state overnight. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:17 Michael Grunwald It's really Florida's first community that was designed to be a really sustainable community. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:37 Stephen Lacey So, a place like Florida, I mean, you have to eventually consider building, like, the way they are in Babcock Ranch if we want to withstand what is coming. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:06 Stephen Lacey So you, you wrote that the story of Florida is about the dreamers and schemers trying to get rid of all that water and drain the swamp in the 20, that's in the 20th century, and in the 21st century, do you think that the, the climate… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:01 Stephen Lacey He's also the author of The Swamp, The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise, which you wrote in 2007, but I understand has now rocketed up the charts again. 2 times in the scene
How one company could crush the US solar industry
- ▶ 0:44 Stephen Lacey Each week, you'll hear from poets and experts local to one place in the U.S. and territories, from the Florida wetlands to the coral reefs of American Samoa to the Pueblo Nation,
How bitcoin is keeping zombie power plants alive
- ▶ 0:44 Stephen Lacey Each week, you'll hear from poets and experts local to one place in the U.S. and territories, from the Florida wetlands to the coral reefs of American Samoa to the Pueblo Nation—
Why ‘maladaptation’ is getting so much attention
- ▶ 0:58 Stephen Lacey Alex is from Florida originally, so the concept of sea level rise wasn't new to her.
- ▶ 8:05 Stephen Lacey Alex Harris thinks other coastal cities across Florida are likely to see the same effects of maladaptation.
Florida is the latest battleground over fossil-fuel phaseouts
- ▶ 0:07 Stephen Lacey At the start of the year, a city councilman in Florida named Joseph Citro crafted a proposal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:08 Emily Pontecorvo Where Josie Tomcow, who is a, um, Florida rep, who also introduced the, the House version of these bills, and there's, some of her Democratic colleagues are asking her, you know, what is the reason for these bills? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:54 Emily Pontecorvo So what we're seeing is now in at least 20 states a count is at, including Florida, we've seen bills that preempt local governments from taking different kinds of climate action.
- ▶ 9:15 Emily Pontecorvo What we found in Florida was there was a money trail between the Tampa Electric Company and Travis Hudson, so Tico, Tampa Electric Company, funneled about 15,000 dollars to him, like, right before this legislative session, and kind of as… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:17 Stephen Lacey There's another consequence to this legislation in Florida. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:03 Emily Pontecorvo So they have, um, a major coal plant called Big Bend in Florida and Tampa, and they're in the process of converting part of that plant to run on natural gas.
- ▶ 15:43 Stephen Lacey Since those bans on bans passed in Florida, Councilman Citro actually did reintroduce his green resolution he dropped earlier this year.
- ▶ 16:51 Stephen Lacey She did not join us beachside in Florida.