{"id":37759,"date":"2025-04-02T17:31:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/desantis-rebukes-republicans-for-backing-bill-for-carbon-sequestration-task-force-absolutely-embarrassing\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T17:31:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:31:44","slug":"desantis-rebukes-republicans-for-backing-bill-for-carbon-sequestration-task-force-absolutely-embarrassing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/desantis-rebukes-republicans-for-backing-bill-for-carbon-sequestration-task-force-absolutely-embarrassing\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis rebukes Republicans for backing bill for carbon sequestration task force: ‘Absolutely embarrassing’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis described it as “embarrassing” after the Sunshine State’s<\/a> GOP-dominated House Natural Resources and Disasters Subcommittee voted to advance a bill that proposes creating a carbon sequestration task force.<\/p>\n

The subcommittee favorably reported the measure in a 15-2 vote on Tuesday, April 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Just two Republicans opposed it, while 10 Republicans and all five Democrats voted in favor of it.<\/p>\n

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“Is this Sacramento or Tallahassee? Absolutely embarrassing,” DeSantis asked<\/a> when commenting on the vote result.<\/p>\n

The task force would “provide recommendations for the development of a statewide carbon sequestration program,” according to the measure, which defines carbon sequestration as “the long-term storage of carbon in plants, soils, geologic formations, and the ocean through land and aquatic habitat management.”<\/p>\n

In a video posted on social media the day before the vote, DeSantis called carbon sequestration a “scam” that is a facet of “climate ideology.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“Don’t indulge the left with carbon sequestration,” he declared.<\/p>\n

The text of the governor’s tweet described the prospect of dumping carbon into the soil, aquifers, or the ocean floor as a “non-starter.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Democratic Florida state Rep.<\/a> Lindsay Cross pushed back, tweeting, “We aren\u2019t pumping carbon anywhere.”<\/p>\n

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“#CarbonSequestration is Science & happening all around us. Plants pull carbon from the air & store in their roots\/soil. We aren\u2019t pumping carbon anywhere. This bipartisan bill will make FL a leader; ready to leverage private investments to conserve & manage natural & ag areas,” she wrote in response to the governor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis described it as “embarrassing” after the Sunshine State’s GOP-dominated House Natural Resources and Disasters Subcommittee voted to advance a bill that proposes creating a carbon sequestration task force. The subcommittee favorably reported the measure in a 15-2 vote on Tuesday, April 1.\u00a0 Just two Republicans opposed it, while 10 Republicans and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}