Protecting what makes Florida, Florida.
This isn't just policy. It's personal.
David Jolly believes protecting Florida's environment is essential to the state's economy and quality of life. His plan calls for real investments in environmental protection, accelerated clean and renewable energy integration into Florida's utility system, sustained funding for coastal resiliency and water quality improvements, and honest climate planning in state policy. David sees environmental protection as protecting what makes Florida successful: the tourism economy, clean beaches, healthy waters, and the natural beauty that families depend on every day.
This is what we are fighting for.
This is about more than the environment.
For families across Florida, the environment isn't an abstract issue. It's part of everyday life. It's the beaches they visit and parks they play in. The water they drink and air they breathe. The places that make this state feel like home.
For David and his family, it's deeply personal. Time spent near the ocean, watching their kids experience the same natural beauty that defines so much of Florida.
That connection is something millions of Floridians share.
And yet, too often, protecting it is treated like a secondary concern. Something to debate. Something to delay.
But the truth is, Florida's environment isn't separate from its success.
Our economy depends on it. Tourism. Fishing. Local businesses. Entire communities rely on clean water, healthy coastlines, and a natural environment that people want to experience and protect.
When that is threatened, it's not just an environmental issue. It's an economic one. It's a quality of life issue. It's a future issue.
Protecting Florida's environment means making real investments. Taking real responsibility. And refusing to treat long-term damage as acceptable.
It means understanding that what we protect today is what we pass on tomorrow.
Because once it's gone, it's not coming back.
Some things are too important to lose.
Florida's future depends on what we protect today.
Frequently asked questions
Q. Is my insurance crisis related to climate?
Yes, structurally. Florida's property insurance crisis is driven by hurricane risk, litigation costs, and reinsurance prices, and the hurricane risk component has grown with warming ocean temperatures and rising sea levels. Insurers price policies to absorb rising expected losses, so climate is one of the underlying drivers of the insurance crisis.
Q. Is climate change real in Florida?
Yes, and Florida faces some of the most direct climate impacts in the country. Florida's Gulf Coast is projected for 22 to 26 inches of sea level rise by 2050 (about double the U.S. average), and hurricane intensity is rising. The 2024 hurricane season caused over $100 billion in combined damage across the Southeast.
Q. What does David Jolly want to do about clean energy?
Jolly's position is to unleash clean and renewable energies across Florida, requiring greater integration of clean energy technologies into public utilities. This means stronger net metering rules to support rooftop solar and accelerated utility-scale renewable buildout. Florida is projected to receive $62.7 billion in IRA-funded clean power investment by 2030.
Q. Aren't climate policies just going to hurt the Florida economy?
The economic case runs the other way. Florida's tourism economy ($134 billion in visitor spending, 1.8 million jobs), ocean economy, and saltwater fishing industry ($9.2 billion in annual impact) all depend on a healthy environment. Climate policy in Florida protects the state's largest industries rather than imposing costs against them.
Q. What about Floridians who live in coastal communities?
Coastal Floridians face the most direct climate exposure: rising sea levels, more intense hurricanes, and accelerating beach erosion. David Jolly's plan calls for sustained investment in resiliency, which means seawalls, raised infrastructure, beach renourishment, stormwater drainage upgrades, and building code modernization in coastal counties.
Q. How would David Jolly handle Florida's water quality crises?
Jolly's plan ties water quality to broader environmental investment. Blue-green algae crises are addressed through the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, and springs degradation is addressed through septic to sewer conversions, agricultural runoff rules, and groundwater protection. Protecting Florida's coast requires changing what flows into it.
Q. What about FPL and renewable energy under David Jolly?
Jolly's clean energy position would require greater integration of renewables into Florida's utility planning. That likely means stronger net metering rules to support rooftop solar and accelerated utility-scale renewable buildout, pushing FPL and other utilities to expand renewable generation.
Q. Why oppose offshore drilling if it could create Florida jobs?
Offshore drilling creates very few Florida jobs because rigs are based out of Louisiana and Texas ports. What Florida loses in a spill (tourism revenue, fishing industry, real estate value, ecological damage) runs to tens of billions of dollars. Florida's tourism economy ($130 billion) and ocean economy ($30 billion) depend on clean beaches and healthy water.