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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Helena Horton

Liz Truss allowed farmers to pollute England’s rivers after ‘slashing red tape’, say campaigners

Cows on farmland around the polluted river Axe in Devon.
Farmland around the polluted river Axe in Devon. Photograph: Savo Ilic/Alamy

Liz Truss is responsible for farmers being allowed to dump a catastrophic “chemical cocktail” of pollutants into Britain’s rivers, according to environmental campaigners.

This has meant agricultural waste now outstrips sewage as the leading danger to England’s waterways.

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