St. Pete to become first city in Florida to use 100 percent renewable energy
Last year, the city council of St. Petersburg unanimously voted to use $800,000 of the $1 million they received from a settlement with BP over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, to become the first city in Florida to rid themselves of fossil fuel use. (I bet Rick Scott is fuming!) “The Integrated Sustainability Action Plan (ISAP) will incorporate a resiliency plan and strategies to become 100 percent dependent on renewable energy. There is still no date set on when this plan will begin, but organizers said the next stage is a timeline. From the $800,000, $300,000 will...
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