{"id":202208,"date":"2025-10-15T16:41:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/202208\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:41:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:41:18","slug":"staffordshire-county-council-scraps-climate-emergency-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/202208\/","title":{"rendered":"Staffordshire County Council scraps climate emergency declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Conservative Simon Tagg, who previously held the role of cabinet member for environment, said he had proposed an alternative suggestion to rescinding the original declaration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We should be refreshing and replacing it, and moving it forward,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he hoped he and other Tory councillors could work with the Reform UK administration on measures his party had initiated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The portfolio holder who was proposing his motion was talking about energy efficiency savings that can be made, green spaces and better recycling \u2013 they&#8217;re all of the things that we were pushing for four or five years anyway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he felt Reform UK councillors had to be &#8220;seen to be making a big gesture&#8221; due to their party&#8217;s national position on issues such as climate change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was pleased the authority&#8217;s nature recovery declaration from 2021 had not been rescinded, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, Conservative Simon Tagg, who previously held the role of cabinet member for environment, said he had proposed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-202208","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\/202208","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=202208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}