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Wildlife Trusts warns latest review of environmental 'red tape' rooted in misleading advice

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Efforts to accelerate the UK's nuclear rollout by cutting back regulations described as "well-intentioned, but fundamentally misguided" by the government are based on misleading advice and inaccuracies....

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