EPA: Environment and Enterprise
The founding legislation for the EPA (the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992) required that the Environmental Protection Agency ‘ensures, in so far as is practicable, that a proper balance is achieved between the need to protect the environment (and the cost of such protection) and the need for infrastructural, economic and social progress’ [Section 52(2) of the...
READ ARTICLE >Communicating Environmental Information – EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a number of statutory roles which include: Licensing, enforcement, monitoring and research Communicating information about the quality of Ireland’s environment. The EPA is conducting a survey is to assess its strengths, weaknesses and opportunities in communicating environmental information to its stakeholders. http://epa.ie/
READ ARTICLE >Ireland greenhouse gas emissions projections 2011-2020.
The EPA has published greenhouse gas emissions projections for the period 2011 to 2020. The projected trends for greenhouse gases and give a picture of Ireland’s ability to meet EU and international targets with respect to greenhouse gas emissions: Ireland can comply with its Kyoto obligations (2008 – 2012) with regard to greenhouse gas emissions....
READ ARTICLE >Urban Waste Water Discharges in Ireland
Serious deficiencies exist with urban waste water treatment plants and there are widespread and negative impacts on the environment flowing from these deficiencies. The EPA report “Focus on Urban Waste Water Discharges in Ireland” (February 2012) has identified that almost 50% of urban waste water treatment facilities in Ireland do not meet EU waste water quality...
READ ARTICLE >TRIGGER VALUES FOR STORM WATER DISCHARGES
The EPA has issued a draft guidance documented is intended for use by EPA licensed sites in order to provide licensees with a methodology for setting appropriate site specific trigger levels at storm water discharge points. The EPA has issued a draft guidance documented intended for use by EPA licensed sites to provide licensees with...
READ ARTICLE >Annual Environmental Report – EPA Guidance for 2012
The Annual Environmental Report (AER) is a requirement for all Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) licensed facilities. The EPA is currently standardising the content of AER’s to collect only relevant, interpreted data. The EPA have produced a guidance document and a series of templates intended to assist in standardising the reporting format of the AER and...
READ ARTICLE >Drinking Water Quality – recently published EPA Report
The EPA have recently published a report on the quality of drinking water in Ireland for the year 2010. The report assesses the safety and security of drinking water supplies based on the results of Water Services Authority monitoring carried out in 2010 and enforcement by the EPA in the same period. The report is...
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