Use of coal to fill power shortfall an embarrassment and red flag
Situation due to gas-fired plants being out of action and wind being lower than usual
John FitzGerald: Civil Service expertise key to Government policy
Specific management focus might beat generalism in serving portfolio recalibration
Greens criticised over moving biodiversity brief to housing department
Climate crisis and biodiversity loss should be in one department – environment groups
Broad outline of Cabinet emerges as issues remain unresolved
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to each have six full Cabinet ministers with Greens having three
Cabinet carve-up: Jobs in new government handed out but no ministry for Varadkar ally Eoghan Murphy
Eamon Ryan set to head up new department responsible for climate and transport
€1m fund to combat illegal dumping across the State
Increase in dumping ‘a scourge on local communities’ says Minister
Government’s electric vehicles plan ‘totally unrealistic’, say experts
Target to have 1 million EVs on roads by 2030 ‘near impossible to achieve’, conference told
Bruton will not support grant application by Shannon LNG until review complete
Controversial Shannon LNG project would facilitate importation of fracked gas from US
Air pollution at harmful levels in nine out of ten European cities
Government has yet to produce National Clean Air Strategy
Extinction Rebellion: Theory and practice of non-violent protest
Garda worked around this week’s radical action to ensure it yielded no martyrs
Efforts to plant more trees in Ireland fall short by thousands of hectares
Just 22,500 hectares of land planted against a target of over 27,000 since 2015
Less than 2% of local authority vehicles are electric or hybrid, analysis shows
Just 75 low-emission vehicles being used by Irish local authorities
Will the Government continue subsidising hybrids?
Department of Environment ‘considering all options’ when it comes to promoting low-carbon motoring
Air pollution turning Enniscorthy into ‘New Delhi’ of Ireland
UCC professor says nationwide smoky coal ban must be implemented immediately
What is in the average Irish litter bin?
Packaging waste amounts to just under half of all litter collected
Action not just words vital to save Brazil’s rainforests
One-sixth of the carbon footprint of EU diets is directly linked to tropical deforestation
Government to invest €20m in electric vehicle charging points
More than 50 high-power ESB charging hubs will be installed all over Ireland
Irish freshwater temperatures 'lethal' in 2018 - fisheries body
Climate change: If temperatures keep rising, fish species including salmon will be at risk
Ireland has much to learn from Germany’s Energiewende
Plugging into the power of ‘citizen energy’ thanks to cheap renewable technologies
More power to you: Household solar energy grants on way
Scheme rolled out this summer is due to be extended to businesses, community organisations and farmers
Irish peak temperatures to rise by ‘up to 2.6 degrees’ by 2050
National strategy for adapting to climate change published
Climate change, Irish style: it was the Greens wot dunnit
IFA pins blame for Ireland’s impending fines for missing climate targets on John Gormley
Government criticised for not backing EU renewable energy proposals
Green Party and others say householders and community groups could sell energy back to electricity grid
Ireland leading a weak charge on electric vehicles
With Volvo to abandon fossil-fuel cars, how does Ireland rate on embracing electric cars?
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