MPs and environmental groups urge a rethink to avoid nature catastrophe

Today The Wildlife Trusts publish new research showing that the Prime Minister’s assessment of “pointless gold-plating, unnecessary red-tape, well-intentioned, but fundamentally misguided, environmental regulations” is based on misleading advice.

Why the Nuclear Regulatory Review is flawed - and how it could turn the nature crisis into a catastrophe exposes the faulty evidence behind recommendations to cut environmental protections made in the Government’s review of nuclear delivery, which was published towards the end of last year.

The research, commissioned by The Wildlife Trusts, also reveals that the review’s proposals to weaken the Habitats Regulations which protect nature sites - as well as “to remove or constrain” the duty that helps National Park and National Landscape authorities to protect landscapes - would have devastating consequences for what remains of the natural world.