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DeSantis enters 2024 race embracing GOP energy strategy |
The Florida governor, who is set to formally announce his presidential bid Wednesday night, has used his perch leading the Sunshine State to take a stand on national energy issues. |
DeSantis, who is widely seen as one of the two frontrunners for the GOP presidential nomination, filed paperwork to run for president on Wednesday and is poised to formally declare his bid later this evening. As governor of Florida, DeSantis has sought to take action on two energy and climate issues in particular that have rallied the Republican base: ESG investing and protecting the availability of gas stoves. Earlier this month, DeSantis signed a bill restricting environmentally and socially conscious investing, also known as ESG, in Florida. As gas stove politics heated up in Washington, D.C., the governor also floated tax breaks for the appliances in Florida, even though they are not widely used there. Florida's legislature also passed a DeSantis-backed bill that would prevent cities and counties from being able to outlaw the appliances. Strategists say his embrace of such issues at the state level will elevate DeSantis in the GOP presidential field.
"And all these candidates need to figure out how do they distinguish themselves from one another in whatever fashion and because he's governor and governors do things, he's going to be able to talk about the direct results that he enacted," GOP strategist Doug Heye said. Read more in a full report at TheHill.com. |
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Park Police officers violated policy when they hit a reporter with a baton and pushed another member of the media's camera during the infamous 2020 clearing of protesters in Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., an internal government watchdog has found.
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The House of Representatives fell short of the required two-thirds majority to override President Biden's veto of a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution resuming solar power tariffs. |
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The Biden administration on Wednesday announced additional steps to protect the stability of the Colorado River, just two days after basin states reached a pivotal consensus on system-wide conservation. |
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Branch out with a different read on The Hill: |
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Support for expanding America’s fossil fuel industry is often cast in the rhetoric of energy independence. But foreign sales, not American demand, are driving a projected decades-long … |
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News we've flagged from other outlets touching on energy issues, the environment and other topics: |
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Every House Democrat has endorsed the discharge petition to force a vote on legislation to hike the debt ceiling and prevent a default, party leaders announced Wednesday. Read more |
| White House officials Wednesday put a spotlight to remarks by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) in which he said some Republicans do not feel they should negotiate with their "hostage" in debt ceiling talks. Read more |
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