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 go toward a county partnership to evaluate how climate change could impact the area’s most vulnerable residents. Suncoast Sierra Club is the grassroots environmental group working with St. Petersburg on this project.”1
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This is amazingly good news. Now more than ever it’s imperative that we use as much clean energy as we can to power our lives. Saint Petersburg’s decision links them with 19 other cities like San Diego, California and Greensburg, Kansas; these cities will “lead the way to support equitable and inclusive communities built on 100% clean, renewable energy for all. Whether you’re from a red state or blue state, clean energy works for everyone and local leaders will continue to move forward to create more jobs, stronger communities, and cleaner air and water.”2
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