{"id":605262,"date":"2023-09-22T09:55:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T04:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=605262"},"modified":"2023-09-22T10:41:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T05:11:33","slug":"uk-leader-rishi-sunak-signals-plan-to-backtrack-on-some-climate-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uk-leader-rishi-sunak-signals-plan-to-backtrack-on-some-climate-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"UK leader Rishi Sunak signals plan to backtrack on some climate goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is preparing to water down some of Britain&#8217;s climate commitments, saying the country must fight climate change without penalizing workers and consumers. <\/p>\n<p>Sunak issued a late-night statement Tuesday in response to a BBC report saying the prime minister is considering extending deadlines for bans on new gasoline and diesel cars currently due in 2030 &#8211; and on new natural-gas home heating. <\/p>\n<p>Sunak said that in a speech this week he will set out a proportionate approach to the environment. He did not set a date for the speech, which could come as early as Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is preparing to water down some of Britain&#8217;s climate commitments, saying the country must fight climate change without penalizing workers and consumers. Sunak issued a late-night statement Tuesday in response to a BBC report saying the prime minister is considering extending deadlines for bans on new gasoline and diesel cars currently due in 2030 &#8211; and on new natural-gas home heating. Sunak said that in a speech this week he will set out a proportionate approach to the environment. He did not set a date for the speech, which could come as early as Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}