Legacy Media Outlets Pounce on DeSantis For Protecting American Energy

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a series of energy-related bills into law on Wednesday that have climate alarm activists and the legacy media in an uproar.

Taken together, the new laws de-emphasize climate change considerations in favor of energy affordability and reliability, goals that were for decades the main focus of power providers and grid operators, but which The Washington Post now unironically describes as “conservative talking points” in a story on the matter.

“The legislation I signed today [will] keep windmills off our beaches, gas in our tanks, and China out of our state,” the governor said, per Florida’s Voice News . “We’re restoring sanity in our approach to energy and rejecting the agenda of the radical green zealots. Furthermore, we’re going to ensure foreign adversaries like China have no foothold in our state.” (RELATED: Biden Admin Hands Out Millions In Solar Subsidies)

In addition to deleting mention of “climate” or “climate change” from Florida law in at least nine different places, the new laws move to prohibit the building of massive offshore wind farms in Florida’s state waters, encourage the expansion of both natural gas and nuclear power generation capacity, protect against bans on gas stoves and other gas appliances, and prevent state agencies from contracting with foreign companies for products made using forced labor, the latter provision targeting some products specific to both solar and wind energy made in China.

Besides characterizing previously non-controversial goals like energy affordability and reliability as mere talking points, writers for The Washington Post also accuse DeSantis of using “climate change as a culture war issue such as abortion and transgender rights to bring national attention to himself and hit the right notes with right-wing voters.” Nowhere in its story does the Post point out the fact that these bills were not written by DeSantis. They were written by Republicans in the Florida state legislature who have been awarded big majorities in both houses of that body by the voters via the democratic processes of which the Post pretends to be a steward with its “Democracy Dies in Darkness” motto.