Successive governments have failed to tackle the dangerous health, environmental and economic impacts of nitrogen pollution in England, a House of Lords report has warned.
The pollution is mainly caused by agriculture, sewage, transport and industry, but a lack of regulation and enforcement has allowed it to proliferate.
The cross-party Environment and Climate Change Committee has created a report with a number of recommendations for key sectors.
On agriculture, it advocates low-emission spreading techniques for manure, digestate and urea by 2027, improved enforcement of existing rules around water and fuel usage and extending environmental permitting regulations to large dairy and beef farms within two years.
On tackling pollution from rivers and water bodies, the report calls on more collaboration between the wastewater and agricultural sectors on upstream, catchment-based and nature-based solutions, as well as improved monitoring from wastewater treatment plants.
For transport it recommends...