President-elect Donald Trump won nearly 70 percent of the vote in Florida’s Clay County last week.
Another big winner in the Republican county near Jacksonville was a ballot measure that will increase taxes by $45 million to fund projects that will improve water quality, protect wildlife and reduce damage from floods.
Nearly two dozen conservation- and climate-related ballot initiatives were approved on Election Day in states from Florida and Georgia to California and Colorado. The measures aim to expand parks, preserve natural areas and prepare communities for the impacts of climate change.
“This is not a partisan issue,” said Pegeen Hanrahan, associate director of conservation finance at the Trust for Public Land, a non-profit that advocates for conservation- and climate-focused ballot measures. “We see wins in red states and in blue states.”
