# epa - Thursday 18 May, 2017
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report on Ireland’s bathing waters found that 93% met minimum EU standards.
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# epa - Thursday 27 April, 2017
Renewable energy in Ireland is currently predominantly generated from the wind.
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# epa - Monday 3 April, 2017
The hazardous material was found dumped in the Glenveagh National Park in Donegal.
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# epa - Wednesday 29 March, 2017
“Erasing climate change may take place in Donald Trump’s mind, but nowhere else.”
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# epa - Tuesday 28 March, 2017
The US president will today unveil a series of measures to review regulations curbing oil, gas, and coal production.
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# epa - Thursday 9 March, 2017
Scientists quickly lashed out at Pruitt for his comments.
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The figures are carried in a special report focusing on the quality of Private Water Supplies in Ireland.
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# epa - Wednesday 8 March, 2017
Tests of the discharge showed excessive emissions of ammonia as well as phosphorus.
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# epa - Friday 3 March, 2017
It has been warned that people’s health could be at risk.
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# epa - Friday 17 February, 2017
Scott Pruitt has sued the EPA a number of times in the past.
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# epa - Monday 2 January, 2017
Christine Todd Whitman, former head of the EPA, accused Donald Trump of ignoring science when it comes to climate change.
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# epa - Thursday 8 December, 2016
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has spent much of his political career battling the EPA.
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# epa - Wednesday 30 November, 2016
A bill calling for the banning of fracking in Ireland passed its first stage in Dáil Éireann in October of this year.
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# epa - Monday 28 November, 2016
That’s the radiation equivalent of getting 17 chest X-rays every day.
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# epa - Thursday 24 November, 2016
Here’s everything you need to know as you start your day.
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Waste water discharges contributed to poor quality water at six popular beaches.
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# epa - Tuesday 22 November, 2016
The farmer brought the killer chemicals down to a hazardous waste collection drive over the weekend.
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# epa - Friday 11 November, 2016
Ireland is on course to miss its emissions targets for this year and the next according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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# epa - Tuesday 8 November, 2016
1,200 premature deaths are caused every year by pollution according to the EPA.
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# epa - Monday 7 November, 2016
Over 50 premises were affected in Burncourt, including a national school.
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# epa - Thursday 27 October, 2016
The EPA published its drinking water report for 2015 today.
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# epa - Tuesday 26 April, 2016
Three decades on from the disaster, we take a look at the effect it had on Ireland – and how we’re facing a much greater threat to our health already.
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# epa - Tuesday 19 April, 2016
Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions were at a four-year high in 2015.
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# epa - Tuesday 5 April, 2016
Six popular beaches didn’t make the EU standard.
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# epa - Wednesday 25 November, 2015
Those counties have failed to provide adequate sewage treatment facilities to meet EU standards, according to the EPA’s waste water report for 2014.
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# epa - Thursday 15 October, 2015
The number of people living with boil water notices is at an all-time low, but 16 areas are still affected.
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# epa - Wednesday 26 August, 2015
Included are a landfill site, a meat processing plant and a number of recycling centres.
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# epa - Wednesday 13 May, 2015
Senator John Whelan has called today’s interim EPA report into the Enva plant in the midlands town a “complete whitewash”.
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# epa - Tuesday 21 April, 2015
Irish Water is pledging to clean up seven of our least tempting bathing areas.
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# epa - Thursday 5 March, 2015
A new report also found that more than half of legal actions taken by the EPA were against waste operators.
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# epa - Sunday 22 February, 2015
The EPA thinks Irish Water should act more quickly.
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# epa - Tuesday 3 February, 2015
Cork had the highest number of failures.
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# epa - Tuesday 20 January, 2015
E.coli was detected in at least one in 10 supplies.
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# epa - Friday 12 December, 2014
An EPA report has also found raw sewage is still being dumped into bathing waters.
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# epa - Tuesday 9 September, 2014
Higher-than-normal levels of sulphur dioxide reached Ireland over the weekend.
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# epa - Tuesday 12 August, 2014
The old cracking in the boiler spine playing havoc again.
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# epa - Thursday 7 August, 2014
Fingal County Council say the ‘poor quality’ results follow last weekend’s heavy rainfall.
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# epa - Thursday 26 June, 2014
The EPA wants a take-back scheme to be introduced so people dispose of expired medicines properly.
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# epa - Thursday 12 June, 2014
Tony O’Brien, Director General of the HSE, will give the lowdown to the PAC this morning.
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