Sierra Club: Governor DeSantis abandons Florida’s economy and workers by signing HB 433

Press release from Sierra Club Florida
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Today in response to Governor DeSantis signing HB 433, “Employment Regulations,” Sierra Club Florida Political Director Luigi Guadarrama said, “By signing HB 433 into law, Governor DeSantis has once again failed Florida’s environment, economy, and workers. Instead of addressing the skyrocketing insurance crisis or protecting our workforce, the Governor chose to abandon millions of hard-working Floridians and leave our state even more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. He has consistently ignored the real issues affecting Florida’s families to appease his donors and large corporations. Ron DeSantis has known nothing but failure, and he should be ashamed.”
Sierra Club Florida has strongly opposed HB 433 since its inception. This bill will preempt local governments’ ability to pass protections for workers in extreme heat at a time when climate change is pushing record temperatures higher year after year. Of the many threats climate change poses to Florida’s economy and well-being – including rising insurance rates and storms – the impact of extreme heat is one of the biggest. Last month, Sierra Club Florida sent Governor Ron DeSantis a letter urging him to veto this bill.
In 2022, heat exposure in the U.S. led to the loss of almost half a trillion potential labor hours, a significant increase from previous years. In 2021, a report by The Atlantic Council found that loss of productivity from heat led to a loss of about $100 billion dollars a year in the United States. The same report concluded that “without meaningful action to reduce emissions and/or adapt to extreme heat, labor productivity losses could double to nearly $200 billion by 2030 and reach $500 billion by 2050.” These impacts will fall on the shoulders of working-class Floridians at a time when Florida is also growing disproportionately less affordable compared to the rest of the nation.
Additionally, extreme heat is already a leading weather-related cause of death and workplace injury across the country. In the United States, extreme heat was estimated to be the cause of about 120,000 workplace injuries every year, and without action, that number could rise to about 450,000 per year in 2050. From 2019 to 2022, heat related deaths rose a staggering 88% in Florida. These deaths and injuries also disproportionately impact marginalized communities.
Sierra Club Florida will continue to advocate for stronger protections for workers and our economy against the impacts of climate, including stronger protections for workers dealing with extreme heat.
SC is just another commie partisan globalist puppet NGO funded by dead billionaires and green lawyer traitors. Fact.
So glad DeSantis doesn’t cave to demonrat crap policies.
I always thought that the Sierra Club was concerned about protecting Spotted Owls and national parks.
I believe ‘Stay in your lane’ applies here.
The Sierra Club is a group of enviro-extremists that used to drive spikes into trees so that lumber jacks would be maimed or killed when harvesting lumber.
Climate change is UN fear tactic to enact great reset & global totalitarian tyranny. The planet is fine.
Manmade global warming is BS like the big lie Covid.
Either they haven’t read the actual verbiage of HB 433 (2024) or they are just trying to propagandize. The actual bill just says political subdivisions cannot mandate heat protections above and beyond EXISTING state and federal mandates and may not require vendors of political subdivisions to provide protections over and above state and federal requirements. They may not use mandates to hold back federal funds. Political subdivisions are free to provide over and above state and federal requirements if they so choose, but they cannot set excess mandates to be used as political power.
I urge everyone who reads criticisms of DeSantis (or any other governor) to go read the bills for yourself. Regardless of your political party, do not let partisan propagandists be your source of information about ANYTHING (again, regardless of your political leanings).
Again, research the salaries and conduct of the board members of this “non-profit” clown show called SC 🤢
Luigi Guadarrama was part of Hillary’s hilariously bad presidential campaign in Colorado, and he has the nerve to call someone else a failure? This guy will be running on TDS fumes for the rest of his life. With losers like that in charge, it’s no wonder Hillary got blown out.