# Environmental Protection Agency
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This year
2024
CLIMATE CRISIS
Extreme weather events show Ireland's vulnerability to climate change, report says
25 Jan
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Last year
2023
EPA
EPA says 'urgent action' is needed to improve quality of drinking water from private supplies
20 Oct 2023
6.6k
5
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA deletes tweet about Meat Free Mondays after farmer complaints
28 Aug 2023
19.4k
82
Environment
One fifth of septic tanks deemed a 'risk' to human health and environment, report shows
28 Jun 2023
15.8k
12
All time
recycling
Rising levels of waste making it difficult to increase recycling rates, EPA warns
7 Dec 2022
7.6k
9
Nuclear Emergency
Ireland's nuclear emergency response plan tested yesterday for the first time in five years
30 Sep 2022
19.9k
31
Carlow
Carlow company told to engage with EPA following complaints about strong odour
10 Sep 2022
41.0k
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EPA
Eamon Ryan says 'we have to do more' as greenhouse gas emissions top pre-pandemic levels
Updated
21 Jul 2022
25.0k
81
EPA
170,000 homes across Ireland thought to be at risk from Radon gas, EPA says
26 May 2022
23.7k
11
peat extraction
High Court orders peat company to halt unauthorised extraction in Midlands
21 Mar 2022
21.3k
EPA
One in twenty private water supplies were contaminated with E. coli in 2020, EPA says
22 Feb 2022
11.2k
9
pipe dreams
It will 'take decades' for Irish Water to remove all lead pipework, EPA says
15 Dec 2021
13.0k
39
EPA
Raw sewage from 33 towns and villages is flowing into our environment every day
3 Nov 2021
58.4k
40
recycling
More than one million tonnes of packaging waste created in Ireland for third year in a row
10 Sep 2021
10.5k
23
Environmental Protection Agency
Water quality in almost half of Ireland's rivers and lakes deemed unsatisfactory
14 Jul 2021
13.9k
9
EPA
Pollution causes around 725 deaths in Dublin each year, with 144 linked to diesel emissions, study finds
1 Mar 2021
15.9k
75
CLIMATE CRISIS
Covid-19 drives biggest drop in Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions since global financial crisis
29 Jan 2021
12.5k
16
hazardous waste
EPA: Ireland lacks adequate facilities to process the hazardous waste it generates
11 Dec 2020
6.9k
11
2020 environment
Irish performance on climate change 'very poor', says major EPA report
25 Nov 2020
19.4k
53
EPA
Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 4.5% in 2019 - the largest reduction since 2011
20 Nov 2020
7.5k
6
Clean Air
Poor air quality is prematurely killing over 1,300 in Ireland each year
25 Sep 2020
23.1k
59
Rubbish
EPA warns 'single-use and throwaway culture' leading to significant waste levels and decline in recycling
16 Sep 2020
17.6k
43
EPA
Over a quarter of waste water systems inspected last year 'posed risk to human health'
22 Jul 2020
14.6k
23
Study
Irish newspaper coverage of climate change low by European standards and 'predominantly political'
28 Nov 2019
7.9k
79
Irish Water
Raw sewage from 77,000 people in Ireland flowing into environment every day
13 Nov 2019
27.8k
47
Emissions
Thousands of kilos of potent greenhouse gas leaked from an ESB station. The EPA wasn't told
12 Nov 2019
26.0k
28
Leixlip
'Small black particles' at Irish Water plant led to boil water notice for 600,000 people last week
31 Oct 2019
38.3k
44
Leixlip Water Treatment Plant
Irish Water apologises to 600,000 customers affected by boil water notice
23 Oct 2019
38.4k
74
Limerick
'A toxic decision': Protest planned after EPA gives green light for Irish Cement Ltd to burn waste
19 Sep 2019
20.4k
36
Irish Water
'It's a real crisis': Billions of litres of untreated water overflows at Ringsend wastewater plant since 2015
12 Jul 2019
62.1k
81
dublin bay
Warning of 'odour' near Ringsend as EPA says plumes to continue until waste water plant upgrade
3 Jul 2019
18.9k
72
Irish Water
EPA to inspect wastewater treatment plant after brown plume discharges into Dublin Bay
2 Jul 2019
25.1k
48
rté investigates
Internal documents show up to one million litres of oil leaked from ESB underground cables
5 Jun 2019
25.5k
29