20 November 2020 It’s a big day everybody. We had our cup of coffee in hand, porridge on the desk and pens at the ready bright and early this morning to dig through the new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data. Published today, the agency released their highly anticipated provisional projections Read more…
January 30th, 2018 Shell Ireland is one of eight industrial sites listed on the Environmental Protection Agency’s latest list of industrial sites under its radar for breaches of environmental regulations. The sites are included on the environmental watchdog’s National Priority Site (NPS) list, which is updated on a quarterly basis. Six Read more…
December 12th, 2017 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has called on local authorities to improve inspections to clamp down on the illegal dumping of tyres and improve air quality across the country. In its review of local authorities’ enforcement performance, the environmental watchdog found that 23 out of 31 local Read more…
November 6th, 2017 The continued burning of solid fuels such as peat and coal is the key driver of poor air quality in Ireland, according to a new report from the Environmental Protection Agency. The levels of dangerous particulate matter in our air are of “growing concern” to the EPA, Read more…
4th April 2017 Asbestos and a large pile of building materials has been found illegally dumped in a national park in Co Donegal over the weekend. The Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) has sent a complaint letter to both Donegal County Council and the Environmental Protection Agency over the discovery in Read more…
The Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport has been accused of ‘mocking’ the 2015 Paris Climate Accord by failing to adhere to national policy and legislation in its recent Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Area.
Environmental group Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) claims that Minister Shane Ross T.D. breached his legal obligations under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 to ‘have regard to’ the objective of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in the department’s new strategy.
With temperatures hitting +30° in parts of the country today, people across the country are heading to bathing locations in droves. If you want to check the quality of the water before diving in, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have developed an online platform where they post up-to-date information regarding bathing quality, the presence of lifeguards and other important information about beaches, lakes and rivers.
