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Audubon Florida Climate and Energy News Roundup Today we share news about solar power at Tallahassee Community College, new emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks, benefits of heat pumps, and more.

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New Project at TCC Will Mean Solar-paneled Walkway Covers on Main Campus From the Tallahassee Democrat “Tallahassee Community College’s campus walkways will soon have solar-paneled canopies over them as part of a new sustainable project underway. TCC’s Board of Trustees approved a design-build contract and guaranteed maximum price of $1.5 million during a meeting this week as the college moves forward with plans to install walkway covers throughout its main campus, or canopy structures with solar panels on top.” Read the entire article.

EPA Sets Strict Emissions Standards for Heavy-duty Trucks and Buses in Bid to Fight Climate Change From the Associated Press “The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday set strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks, buses and other large vehicles, an action that officials said will help clean up some of the nation’s largest sources of planet-warming greenhouse gases. The new rules, which take effect for model years 2027 through 2032, will avoid up to 1 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions over the next three decades and provide $13 billion in net benefits in the form of fewer hospital visits, lost work days and deaths, the EPA said.” Read the entire article.

Companies That Care About Climate Change, Need to Care About Their Banking From The Hill  “Climate scientists are increasingly unable to explain an unprecedented spike in global temperatures. Staid scientific institutions are using phrases like “off the charts” to describe just how hot the world’s oceans have become… These are good reasons why the world should pay attention to a new report, out this week, that might just hold the secret to getting the U.S. financial industry to finally take the climate crisis seriously.” Read the entire article.

Florida is About to Erase Climate Change From Most of Its Laws From Grist.org “In Florida, the effects of climate change are hard to ignore, no matter your politics… Republican-led legislature has responded with more than $640 million for resilience projects to adapt to coastal threats. But the same politicians don’t seem ready to acknowledge the root cause of these problems. A bill awaiting signature from Governor Ron DeSantis, who dropped out of the Republican presidential race in January, would ban offshore wind energy, relax regulations on natural gas pipelines, and delete the majority of mentions of climate change from existing state laws.” Read the entire article.

Yes, Heat Pumps Slash Emissions Even if Powered by a Dirty Grid From Yale Climate Connections “You might consider heat pumps to be a tantalizing climate solution (they are) and one you could adopt yourself (plenty have). But perhaps you’ve held off on getting one, wondering how much of a difference they really make if a dirty grid is supplying the electricity you’re using to power them — that is, a grid whose electricity is generated at least in part by fossil gas, coal or oil.” Read the entire article.

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