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Florida Renewable Energy Plan a Job and Economy Juggernaut
solveclimate.com - 5/27/2009
Florida Renewable Energy Plan a Job and Economy Juggernaut
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If Florida embraced its solar and wind power potential and got just 20 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2020, it would create 37,000 new jobs, generate more than $16 billion in economic activity by 2025, and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 319 million tons, a new study shows.
miamiherald.com - 6/1/2009
Florida's green energy plans fail to produce - Politics AP
— miamiherald.com — For a year, while the green movement was at its height, Florida environmentalists, new solar companies, utility... lobbyists and state regulators spent thousands of hours trying to determine how much of the state's power supply should come from ... (more) Florida's green energy plans fail to produce - Politics AP

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Florida Renewable Energy Plan a Job and Economy Juggernaut
Sustainablog — By David Sassoon. Originally published May 28, 2009, at Solveclimate If Florida embraced its solar and wind power potential and got 20 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2020, it would create 37,000 new jobs, generate more than $16 billion in economic activity by 2025, and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 319 million tons, a new study commissioned by the state Department of Environmental Protection shows. The just-released report examined 28 policy measures in Republican Gov. Charlie Crist’s ...

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