AST week, the Government, thwarted by the House of Lords over its plans to reduce the protection of our rivers (), responded by playing off house building against farming. It justified its original intention—to remove nutrient-pollution controls on developers—by highlighting the fact that emissions from new houses pose a smaller threat to our rivers than intensive agriculture. In this, it
Stop splashing and swim
Sep 20, 2023
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