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'Deadly impacts' of nitrogen pollution in agriculture can no longer be ignored, report warns

The House of Lords' Environment and Climate Change Committee said successive Governments have failed to tackle the causes of nitrogen pollution

Chris Brayford
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"When nitrogen combines with other elements it can form dangerous and deadly pollutants that affect air quality, contributing to tens of thousands of premature deaths per year and damages and kills aquatic life, precious habitats, plants and wildlife."
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"When nitrogen combines with other elements it can form dangerous and deadly pollutants that affect air quality, contributing to tens of thousands of premature deaths per year and damages and kills aquatic life, precious habitats, plants and wildlife."

Action must be taken immediately to tackle the ‘deadly impacts' of nitrogen pollution in agriculture, a new House of Lords report has warned. Baroness Shaista Sheehan, chair of the House of Lords' Environment...

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