Florida\u2019s flagship climate-resilience program has been spared from deep cuts by state lawmakers after a leading business group embraced it as \u201cone of the state\u2019s greatest long-term economic opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Resilient Florida has distributed $1.8 billion since its inception in 2021 for local projects that protect some of the most flood-prone parts of the U.S.<\/p>\n
But its national prominence was threatened by efforts this year to slash state funding even as hundreds of billions of dollars of property is exposed to flooding.<\/p>\n
The Florida Council of 100, a group of state business leaders, estimated that coastal property in the state worth up to $1.75 trillion could be at risk from flooding in the next 50 years and urged an increase in Resilient Florida funding to at least $500 million a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida\u2019s flagship climate-resilience program has been spared from deep cuts by state lawmakers after a leading business group…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-286110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}