The Washington Post is not happy about a new law in Florida that Governor DeSantis signed today. DeSantis signed several bills designed to squash the climate change agenda by what he called “green energy zealots.”

Here’s how the Washington Post ran the story:

DeSantis signs bill scrubbing ‘climate change’ from Florida law

Climate advocates said the bill is a bid for national attention from a Republican governor eager to use global warming as a culture war issue

Florida will eliminate climate change as a priority in making energy policy decisions, despite the threats it faces from powerful hurricanes, extreme heat and worsening toxic algae blooms.

On Wednesday, the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, signed the legislation, which is set to go into effect on July 1. The measure also removes most references to climate change in state law, bans offshore wind turbines in state waters and weakens regulations on natural gas pipelines.

“The legislation I signed today [will] keep windmills off our beaches, gas in our tanks, and China out of our state,” the governor said, according to the DeSantis-friendly outlet Florida’s Voice, which was the first to report that he had signed the bill. “We’re restoring sanity in our approach to energy and rejecting the agenda of the radical green zealots.”

Supporters say the new law helps the state prioritize a concern of Floridians — energy affordability, which they say is threatened by excessive regulation. But some climate advocates said the measure is largely symbolic and would have little effect on the Florida’s shift toward renewable energy. Solar power is booming in the state and, despite Republican lawmakers’ desire to curb construction of wind turbines, Florida isn’t windy enough to have piqued the wind industry’s interest.

Rather, environmentalists said the new law is the latest example of DeSantis’s eagerness to use climate change as a culture war issue such as abortion and transgender rights to bring national attention to himself and hit the right notes with right-wing voters.

Earlier this month, he signed a bill banning lab-grown meat from the state, though the product isn’t commercially available. In a post on X accompanying the announcement, the governor said the law would protect Florida from “global elites” at the World Economic Forum, falsely claiming that the annual gathering of political leaders in Davos harbors plans to force the world “to eat fake meat and bugs.”

They are trying hard to smear Governor DeSantis, making it sound like he’s deceiving everyone. Note they say ‘Florida isn’t windy enough’ to ban offshore wind turbines or that “banning lab-grown meat” is dumb because “the product isn’t commercially available.”

This is the same thing the left always does. Like when they claimed the gay agenda wasn’t being taught in Florida schools after DeSantis banned it, trying to make it seem like he was only provoking ‘culture wars’ to make us ‘right-wingers’ happy.

But here’s the kicker:

At the same time, DeSantis and other Republicans have portrayed climate solutions like reducing carbon pollution as radical and part of a left-wing agenda.

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In addition to removing the term climate change, the new law would make affordability and reliability the focus of the state’s energy policy — an echo of conservative talking points that seek to portray renewable power as too expensive and untrustworthy.

How dare Florida focus on making energy ‘affordable’ and ‘reliable’! What an outrage!

Seriously, this article is pathetic. But the bills DeSantis signed are not. DeSantis and the state Republicans are winning and the left just can’t stand it.