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Friday 30 October 2020
SF6 is a greenhouse gas with a global warming potential 23,000 times that of carbon dioxide.
India’s capital city is blanketed in a poisonous smog every winter.
A smog incident last year nearly called for a public information alert.
Last year, Finance Minister Paschal Donohue considered introducing higher carbon taxes but ditched the idea at the last minute.
Herbert Diess said he had not aimed to cause offence with what he said.
And from March, drivers who go in illegally will be fined €90.
Hundreds of protesters blocked bridges across the UK capital today.
Here’s what you can do to make your motor as clean and efficient as possible.
It said sales of diesel cars have fallen dramatically in Ireland.
The monkeys were watching cartoons at the time.
David Simpson of Windsor Clonee says the future is electric.
The EPA said that around 1,500 premature deaths in Ireland in 2014 were directly attributable to air pollution.
Ireland is trying to reduce its emissions in order to comply with EU regulations and avoid a hefty €75 million fine in 2020.
There were 1,510 premature deaths in Ireland in 2014 directly attributable to poor air quality levels.
Researchers say almost half of those deaths could be preventable.
The UK’s poor air quality ratings are thought to cause more than 40,000 premature deaths a year.
Irish Cement wants to burn tyres and other industrial waste at its factory in Mungret.
Britain has vowed to “end the sale of all conventional petrol and diesel cars” by 2040.
The UK plans to phase out petrol and diesel cars by 2040, while Volvo will stop producing petrol cars in 2019.
The activist group ‘Parents Against the Incinerator’ are holding a meeting this evening. Here’s a bit of what will be discussed.
Three investigations are ongoing after eleven workers at the plant were taken to hospital last week.
Yesterday, 11 people were treated at hospital after an ‘uncontrolled release’ in the newly-opened plant.
From midnight tonight, speed limits in 10 Dublin areas will be lowered to 30km/h.
The local cement plant is owned by a subsidiary of CRH, one of Ireland’s biggest companies.
The guilty plea entered today is in addition to over €16 billion in settlements the company has already agreed to pay.
The devices are said to reduce soot particle emissions by up to 90%.
In Europe around 15,000 Golf cars affected with a manual gearbox are being called to workshops.
The civil complaint against the German automaker was filed on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Now Porsche is involved.
The company is recalling 80,000 cars in Ireland in the wake of the scandal.
You’ll need your car’s Vehicle Identification Number.
The crisis escalated severely this week, with CEO Martin Winterkorn quitting his job. But what went on at VW?
When it comes to climate change, we can’t blame ‘Acts of God’ for destroying our planet. We can only blame ourselves.
It may signal a worldwide action on climate change.
The impact on the local biodiversity in the deforested areas is detrimental and potentially irreversible.
Cutting costly emissions from thousands of public buildings would help the environment and save Ireland €200m a year – without requiring a single job loss.
The EPA has said that Ireland will meet its Kyoto obligations based on provisional figures for 2008 – 2012.
Figures from the Department of the Environment show a fall in plastic bag usage and therefore the amount of tax taken in recent years.
Six countries – including Ireland – are not on track to cut emissions as required under EU law: the cost of compliance will be great.
Around 140 countries decided on the deal after all-night talks in Geneva.
WE’RE JUST A day out from the spookiest night of the year.
Halloween will look a bit different this year, with no trick-or-treating advised.
Nonetheless, there are plenty of traditions that we can still continue from the safety of our own homes, one being pumpkin carving.
So, today we want to know: Have you carved a pumpkin for Halloween this year?
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Tracy Ward explains how burnout affects us – and what to do if we’re feeling it.
The goalposts – and polling analysis – have shifted since 2016, Noel Rock writes.
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