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Gov. Ron DeSantis can’t eliminate climate change as an issue, but he acted Wednesday to take it out of Florida government. The Republican signed legislation removing most references to climate change in state law and barring its use as a priority in setting energy policy, the Washington Post reports. “It goes further than any other state has gone in repealing its existing climate laws,” said Michael Gerrard of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University—despite Florida’s vulnerability to climate change, including the risk of rising sea levels. “They should be the last state …

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