Department Of Environment

Fianna Fáil TD Barry Cowen has sent documents that sparked controversy over ESB’s wholesale electricity prices to regulators, the deputy confirmed on (...)

People living near two proposed wind farms in north Leitrim have expressed fears that the turbines will trigger landslides that could ruin their homes(...)

Plans to cut the State’s greenhouse gas emissions by insulating 500,000 homes by 2030 will cost €28 billion, or €56,000 per family home, according to (...)

Community leaders in Co Leitrim say they feel “under siege” after learning that the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications Eamon Rya(...)

The big short-term political risk in relation to Budget 2022 is that an energy crisis already driving soaring gas and electricity prices will worsen o(...)

Transitioning Ireland to a circular economy will have far-reaching consequences for manufacturing and lead to major changes in waste-management practi(...)

The recent “code red for humanity” warning from the world’s leading climate scientists could not have been clearer. To avert a climate catastrophe tha(...)

Coal generated up to a quarter of Irish electricity demand last month at peak times, possibly boosting the State’s carbon emissions, official figures (...)

Two electricity plants whose shutdown added to a squeeze on energy supplies last winter could restart generating later this year. Surging electricity(...)

Bord na Móna is to create 885 new jobs mainly in the midlands as it shifts from peat extraction in the region and embraces “climate solutions” includi(...)