{"id":710,"date":"2008-10-03T19:35:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T19:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/british-government-creates-department-for-energy-and-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:54:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:54:17","slug":"british-government-creates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/british-government-creates\/","title":{"rendered":"British government creates Department for Energy and Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has created a new government Department for Energy and Climate Change. Ed Miliband will be at the helm of the new governmental agency. The Guardian newspaper wrote that the action &#8220;signals a major rethink of the government&#8217;s environment policy and reflects the rise of climate change to the top of the national and international environment agendas&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace welcomed the initiative. &#8220;This is, potentially, fantastic stuff. Until now, one department has been dealing with climate change and another &#8211; the department for business (DBERR) &#8211; with energy. This entirely nonsensical division hamstrung any chances of a coherent, low carbon energy policy and kept business and environmental interests at perpetual loggerheads. No prizes for guessing who usually won&#8221;, the organization said on its website, although it added a wait-and-see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org.uk\/blog\/climate\/miliband-climate-change-energy-coal-20081003\">note<\/a> to its optimism.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has created a new government Department for Energy and Climate Change. Ed Miliband will be at the helm of the new governmental agency. The Guardian newspaper wrote that the action &#8220;signals a major rethink of the government&#8217;s environment policy and reflects the rise of climate change to the top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-green-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9768,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/9768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}