Florida business group helps shield Resilient Florida climate program from state funding cuts
Florida's Resilient Florida program, which has distributed $1.8 billion since 2021 for flood protection projects, was spared from deep state funding cuts after a leading business group endorsed it as a major long-term economic opportunity. The program protects some of the most flood-prone areas in the U.S., where hundreds of billions of dollars of property are at risk.
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Florida's flagship climate-resilience program has been spared from deep cuts by state lawmakers after a leading business group embraced it as 'one of the state's greatest long-term economic opportunities.'
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Nationally prominent Resilient Florida has spent $1.8 billion since 2021 on flood protection. But it faced a huge cut in state funding.
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