Florida businesses know the threats of rising seas; lawmakers must help them | A Miami Herald editorial
Pay attention to the business of climate change.
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Lemay Acosta and his daughter Layla,2, take a boat ride in his flooded neighborhood in Plantation, a day after Tropical Storm Eta made landfall in the Florida Keys and flooded parts of South Florida last month. [ CARLINE JEAN | AP ]
Published Dec. 13, 2020
In Florida, when business speaks, the Legislature listens. And when business is under threat, the stateâs Republican leadership can catapult itself into action, for example, passing the Clean Waterways Act to rein in toxic blue-green algae, which ravaged Florida waters in recent years.
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