{"id":183230,"date":"2025-10-07T11:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/183230\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:47:07","slug":"darlington-council-climate-change-pledge-wont-be-scrapped-after-reform-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/183230\/","title":{"rendered":"Darlington council climate change pledge &#8216;won&#8217;t be scrapped&#8217; after Reform challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A council has rejected calls to scrap its climate emergency pledge after the policy was described as &#8220;virtue signalling&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Darlington Borough Council has set a target to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040 but the plan was recently criticised by the local Reform UK chair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Michael Walker, who attended a council meeting as a member of the public, called for the local authority to end its climate targets and use the money to &#8220;help residents&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Labour-led council&#8217;s cabinet member for economy Chris McEwan said the commitment would not be scrapped as it offered benefits such as energy resilience and dealing with fuel poverty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A council has rejected calls to scrap its climate emergency pledge after the policy was described as &#8220;virtue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-183230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}