The state of Florida is located in the exactly central part of the Southeastern tip of the United States and has 19 million resident citizens. Florida shares a special proximity with Cuba, whose energy production ha coming surprisingly far in recent years. The capital of Florida is Tallahassee, but Jacksonville enjoys the real urban mix. Besides national parks and water sports and beaches, resorts like Walt Disney World attract global visitors.
Florida is a tropical climate with a large percentage of retirement citizens and wealthy second home visitors. Yet, with Florida ranked the fifth most dangerous state, Miami indeed has “vice”. Policies for lower amounts of carbon fuel burning, alternative fuels, and cleaner burning nongas dependent energy sources are taking shape. Reduction in diesel emissions funding from Recovery programs has been enacted.
Almost 18 per cent water, Florida has tropical everglades and marshy inlets and inland waterways which provide roaming for native reptiles, seabirds, and river fowl. Alligators, flying pests, and fishing make up the concentration of wildlife in Florida. But humans crowd in as well, making Florida the 4th highest population state in America. Water quality and wastewater handling is an important component to many Recovery programs, as well as cleanup of Marianna, Clermont, Pensacola and other sites.
Florida hands in a whopping $734 billion gross annual state domestic product. Florida citrus is a byword in American nutrition, as Floridian banks register well. Yet Everglades impact and pollution-causing contaminants are areas that could be more stringently acted upon. Enough water surrounds Florida that water quality for freshwater and offshore needs to be the best possible. Recovery funding and programs will address this. The pollution link to algae has been probed.
The state of Florida is the most Southeast state in America. Shaped like a gun, the “handle” of Florida is a large peninsula reaching to the offshore country of Cuba. Extended travel bans to Cuba have recently been lifted, prompting many to question trade/travel changes between Florida and Cuba in the near future. Coal, natural gas, and solar energy make Florida a self-supporting energy hub. Environmental concerns such as algae bloom (red tide) have made stricter laws for emissions and pollutants. Offshore drilling may be in the future for Florida.
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