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# Environmental Protection Agency

Yesterday
26th July 2024
E. coli failures in 1 in 20 private drinking water supplies across Ireland last year, says EPA
26 Jul
5.2k
23
This month
July 2024
Over half a million people are drinking from 'at risk' public water supplies
3 Jul
14.0k
42
Last month
June 2024
'Greenwashing' makes it difficult for public to identify genuine eco-friendly products, says study
1 Jun
8.9k
30
This year
2024
Ireland to fall 'well short' of both national and EU emissions reduction targets
The country is projected to achieve a reduction of up to 29% in total greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, compared to the target of 51%.
28 May
6.9k
EPA updates list of good and bad bathing sites as wet weather puts pressure on beaches
16 May
8.1k
6
Extreme weather events show Ireland's vulnerability to climate change, report says
25 Jan
10.8k
68
Last year
2023
Ireland's new national air quality forecast goes live today
3 Nov 2023
23.2k
65
EPA says 'urgent action' is needed to improve quality of drinking water from private supplies
20 Oct 2023
6.6k
5
EPA deletes tweet about Meat Free Mondays after farmer complaints
28 Aug 2023
19.4k
73
One fifth of septic tanks deemed a 'risk' to human health and environment, report shows
28 Jun 2023
15.8k
12
All time
Rising levels of waste making it difficult to increase recycling rates, EPA warns
7 Dec 2022
7.6k
9
Ireland's nuclear emergency response plan tested yesterday for the first time in five years
30 Sep 2022
19.9k
31
Carlow company told to engage with EPA following complaints about strong odour
10 Sep 2022
41.0k
3
Eamon Ryan says 'we have to do more' as greenhouse gas emissions top pre-pandemic levels
Updated 21 Jul 2022
25.0k
81
170,000 homes across Ireland thought to be at risk from Radon gas, EPA says
26 May 2022
23.7k
11
EPA reveals Ireland's best and worst quality bathing sites
13 May 2022
45.1k
12
Peat pressure: Industrial peat extraction in enforcement firing line
7 Apr 2022
25.1k
8
High Court orders peat company to halt unauthorised extraction in Midlands
21 Mar 2022
21.3k
One in twenty private water supplies were contaminated with E. coli in 2020, EPA says
22 Feb 2022
11.2k
9
It will 'take decades' for Irish Water to remove all lead pipework, EPA says
15 Dec 2021
13.0k
39
Raw sewage from 33 towns and villages is flowing into our environment every day
3 Nov 2021
58.5k
40
More than one million tonnes of packaging waste created in Ireland for third year in a row
10 Sep 2021
10.5k
23
Irish Water faces sentence over environmental breaches in Cork and Kildare
23 Jul 2021
24.8k
Water quality in almost half of Ireland's rivers and lakes deemed unsatisfactory
14 Jul 2021
13.9k
9
Pollution causes around 725 deaths in Dublin each year, with 144 linked to diesel emissions, study finds
1 Mar 2021
15.9k
75
Covid-19 drives biggest drop in Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions since global financial crisis
29 Jan 2021
12.5k
16
EPA: Ireland lacks adequate facilities to process the hazardous waste it generates
11 Dec 2020
6.9k
11
Irish performance on climate change 'very poor', says major EPA report
25 Nov 2020
19.4k
53
Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 4.5% in 2019 - the largest reduction since 2011
20 Nov 2020
7.5k
6
Raw sewage from 35 towns and villages flows into our environment every day
12 Nov 2020
54.4k
45
Poor air quality is prematurely killing over 1,300 in Ireland each year
25 Sep 2020
23.1k
59
EPA warns 'single-use and throwaway culture' leading to significant waste levels and decline in recycling
16 Sep 2020
17.6k
43
Over a quarter of waste water systems inspected last year 'posed risk to human health'
22 Jul 2020
14.6k
23
Irish newspaper coverage of climate change low by European standards and 'predominantly political'
28 Nov 2019
7.9k
79
Raw sewage from 77,000 people in Ireland flowing into environment every day
13 Nov 2019
27.8k
47
Thousands of kilos of potent greenhouse gas leaked from an ESB station. The EPA wasn't told
12 Nov 2019
26.0k
28
'Small black particles' at Irish Water plant led to boil water notice for 600,000 people last week
31 Oct 2019
38.4k
44
Irish Water apologises to 600,000 customers affected by boil water notice
23 Oct 2019
38.4k
74
'A toxic decision': Protest planned after EPA gives green light for Irish Cement Ltd to burn waste
19 Sep 2019
20.4k
36
'It's a real crisis': Billions of litres of untreated water overflows at Ringsend wastewater plant since 2015
12 Jul 2019
62.1k
81
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