Senate overrides veto of Global Warming Solutions Act, making it law
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Senate overrides veto of Global Warming Solutions Act, making it law
Without debating or discussing the legislation, the Democratic-controlled Senate swiftly voted 22-8 to reverse Scott’s decision, meeting the two-thirds majority needed to override a gubernatorial veto.
The House overrode Scott’s veto 103-47 last week.
The Global Warming Solutions Act, H.688, requires the state to reduce greenhouse gas pollution to 26% below 2005 levels by 2025. Emissions would need to be 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and 80% below by 2050....While the legislation sets up new emissions reduction requirements, it does not spell out or dictate how the state will meet them. Instead, it forms a 23-member Climate Council — with the governor’s secretary of administration acting as the chair, and other members including state government officials, representatives from the manufacturing sector, citizen experts and others — to come up with a pollution reduction plan...