September 1st, 2017 The head of Ireland’s environmental watchdog is set to take up a new role as chair of the management board of the European Environment Agency (EEA). Laura Burke will replace the outgoing Austrian chair, Elisabeth Freytag-Rigler. She will retain her position as Director General of the Environmental Read more…
August 31, 2017 Anglers and waterway-enthusiasts have been raising the alarm for decades. Whether we really listened while they talked is a moot point. Either way, it is now official – the quality of Ireland’s rivers has witnessed a “continued and unwelcome decline” since the late 1980s. This is the finding Read more…
July 26th, 2017 The Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC) has warned that Ireland’s near certain failure to meet our 2020 emissions targets will impact on our longer term decarbonisation plans. In its first major report released today, the Council states that Ireland is “unlikely” to meet its 2020 emissions target Read more…
June 8th, 2017 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has opened an investigating into an incident at the Poolbeg Incinerator in Dublin last night that left eleven workers in hospital. In a statement released this evening, the EPA said that waste feed to the incinerator has stopped and waste incineration has Read more…
June 8th, 2017 A groundbreaking Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report published today reveals for the first time evidence on the sources and scale of microplastic pollution in Ireland’s freshwater system. The research, led by the Marine and Freshwater Research Centre at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology also highlights a number of Read more…
April 13th 2017 Ireland will fail to meet its upcoming emissions targets if the State continues to rely on current climate policies, a new report from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found. The environmental watchdog said that targets for agriculture, transport, residential, commercial, non-energy intensive industry and waste are unlikely Read more…
7th April 2017 The EPA has warned that Greenhouse gas emissions from Irish companies have increased under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme in 2016. According to the EPA, Ireland needs a stronger incentive to move away from fossil fuel use. The key findings include: Emissions rose 5.4% under the emissions trading Read more…
13 January, 2017 Trump, Twitter, Climate-Change denial and the Advent of ‘Fake News’ [x_columnize]President-elect of the United States Donald Trump is infamous for his outrageous tweets @realDonaldTrump. He partakes in celebrity insults, climate-change denial, climate-change conspiracy theories, bragging about his election win over Hillary Clinton and the democratic party, and Read more…
25 November, 2016 According to the report on ‘Urban Waste Water Treatment in 2015’ recently published on the EPA Ireland website, significant funding will be required to prevent waste water from having a negative impact on pollution and public health in a large number of sites scattered across the country. Read more…
November 18th 2016 Irish Senators are continuing to strongly object to proposed laws which will allow extended hedge-cutting and scrub burning. The bill which will allow land owners to cut hedgerows and burn scrub in uplands for an extra month will damage wildlife experts have warned. Yesterday Senators continued to question Read more…
