(FL) House passes controversial (extremist) environmental bill in minutes

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Legislators pushed through a bill to streamline permitting and limit environmental protections with no debate or discussion.
By Mary Ellen Klas
Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau

TALLAHASSEE -- With head-spinning speed, the Florida House took up and passed a major rewrite of state environmental laws late Friday that Florida conservation groups call one of the worst environmental bills in decades.

House lawmakers spent only seven minutes discussing, amending and voting on the 80-page bill just before the chamber was scheduled to adjourn at 8 p.m.

In that time, lawmakers accepted six amendments that attempt to mitigate environmentalists’ concerns over provisions they had described as a “monstrous threat to the environment.” They added the content of another bill making it easier for ports to dredge to accommodate bulkier ships. And they removed a section that prevented the ability of citizens to challenge environmentally sensitive projects.

House Speaker Dean Cannon, with the cadence of an auctioneer, then recognized bill sponsor Rep. Jimmy Patronis, R-Panama City, for a brief explanation, accepted no questions or debate, and the House voted 95-16 to send it to the Senate. There is no similar companion bill in the Senate, where it
faces a difficult road to passage.

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[SpiralHawk]

1. The relentless henchwork of Radical Republicon Corporatists, who disguise

themselves by using the Orwellian term 'conservative' to describe themselves while they perpetrate their fear-and-greed motivated Radical Rape of the Earth (R).

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Uncertain this will survive when challenged by the EPA.

Federal law has supremacy over state law in environmental matters unless the state law is more stringent than federal regulations.

[bear425]

3. Hope you are right.

It's getting more and more frightening to live in this state.