Department Of Environment
166 results

Home and business heat emissions not falling fast enough, SEAI warns
- Energy & Resources
- December 18, 2020, 14:43
Energy use for heat in Irish homes and businesses decreased by only 0.7 per cent in 2019, according to latest figures from the Sustainable Energy Auth(...)

Ireland poised to be first in the world to map its entire seabed
- Science
- November 5, 2020, 06:00
“If we don’t have the data, we can’t make sustainable management decisions,” says Thomas Fury from the Marine Institute. This is possibly the simplest(...)

Strength of Climate Action Bill defended at committee hearing
- Environment
- October 14, 2020, 20:25
Kevin O’Sullivan Environment & Science Editor Claims that the Government’s Climate Action Bill is “full of loose language” and fails to incorpor(...)

Climate and the budget: Carbon tax hike and funding for sustainable transport
- Environment
- October 13, 2020, 20:53
A range of climate actions are threaded through Budget 2021, with significant measures including an overhaul of motor taxation; carbon tax increases, (...)

Cleaning up public transport emissions should be priority
- Motors
- June 3, 2020, 07:05
“It was around 2010 onwards that we noticed that pollution with respect to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) was getting worse on some of the major roads. We had(...)

New car sales continue to slide despite 30% drop in used imports
- Retail & Services
- March 2, 2020, 12:50
New car sales fell 7.7 per cent in February, with registrations for 2020 down 4.94 per cent on the same two-month period last year. A fall in used ca(...)

Dublin council official calls for ban on parents driving children to school
- Environment
- February 17, 2020, 20:28
Parents should be legally prohibited from driving their children to school, a senior Dublin City Council official has told a clean air conference. Th(...)

‘Plastic will be a very good news story for us’
- Sponsored
- October 4, 2019, 00:00
One of the biggest developments in the Irish waste-processing industry is set to happen next year when large volumes of plastic film generated in Irel(...)

More than half a million trees to be planted on former boglands
- Environment
- October 2, 2019, 19:45
More than half a million native woodland trees will be planted on former boglands over the next three years in a bid to tackle carbon emissions, the D(...)

Builder says our attic conversion should be classed ‘non-habitable’. Is this right?
- Homes & Property
- October 1, 2019, 06:00
Due to our expanding family, we need to extend our home. Based on quotes from builders we have decided that an attic conversion is the most cost-effec(...)