full-time
position running the stateâs response to sea level rise.
Nesheiwat stepped down in February to take a homeland security job in the Trump administration. For most of 2020 at least some of her responsibilities were supposed to be shifted to Noah Valenstein, the secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection.
From left: Florida Chief Science Officer Thomas Frazer, then-Chief Resilience Officer Julia Nesheiwat and Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Noah Valenstein sit for an interview in August 2019. [ DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | TIMES | Tampa Bay Times ]
Nesheiwatâs most visible accomplishment was a 36-page report summarizing attempts at studying and adapting to sea level rise across Florida. She called the stateâs work âdisjointed,â with regional collectives and flood-prone municipalities taking the lead. To the frustration of environmentalists, she did not detail what can be done to reduce fossil fuel emissions that contrib
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