Bradley Marshall, Attorney, Florida Office: “We’re pleased that the court saw the danger this rule posed to our nation’s communities. As we pointed out, it would only take 22 tank cars to hold the equivalent energy of the Hiroshima bomb.”
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit strikes down a 2020 rule that would have allowed trains to travel the country filled with an unprecedented amount of explosive liquefied natural gas (LNG).
Tania Galloni, Managing Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: “Florida’s governor can make any political statements he wants, but the fact is that Florida’s ecosystems, including the Everglades, are in trouble. We need to strengthen environmental protections, not continue to let development run rampant.”
Bradley Marshall, Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: “At a time when Florida’s utilities are being authorized ever-higher profits, we think they should share some of the burden of these ever-increasing and more intense storms. It shouldn’t just be on hardworking Florida families to cover the cost.”
Bradley Marshall, Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: “Residential customers should not be subsidizing the cost of any utility company, let alone a foreign one, nor should they be subsidizing TECO’s largest and wealthiest customers as they have been.”
En la batalla por reducir el uso de combustibles fósiles, una cosa es cierta: las medidas de eficiencia energética son la forma más barata y sencilla de hacerlo.
Organizaciones ambientales y de la sociedad civil argumentan que el pobre servicio que ofrece LUMA y un laxo esquema que mida su desempeño es un tema de vida o muerte para muchos puertorriqueños.
Tampa Bay residents spoke before utility regulators at a rare set of public hearings. Florida residents pay some of the highest energy bills in the country.
Bradley Marshall, Attorney, Florida Office: “They’re using a completely different cost of service methodology that is driving residential bills through the roof.”
