Tallahassee bills aim to kill efforts by counties to establish heat protections

Exactly a week after lobbyists succeeded in derailing Miami-Dade County’s landmark heat safety legislation, a lawmaker filed a bill in Tallahassee to block similar efforts in the future. And not just in Miami-Dade. The latest in a string of pre-emption edicts from the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature would block any…

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