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Ireland's Environment 2016 - An Assessment

Year: 2016

Ireland's Environment 2016 provides an update on the environmental challenges that we face both nationally and globally. The report adds to a range of thematic and research reports available from the EPA that cover many of the issues reported on in more detail.

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Ireland's Environment 2016 - An Assessment

Year: 2016

Ireland's Environment 2016 provides an update on the environmental challenges that we face both nationally and globally. The report adds to a range of thematic and research reports available from the EPA that cover many of the issues reported on in more detail.

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WEEE data for 2013

Year: 2016

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Research 170 - Review of Public Information Programmes to Enhance Home Radon Screening Uptake and Home Remediation

Year: 2016

Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas. It has no taste, colour or smell. It is formed in the ground by the radioactive decay of uranium which is present in all rocks and soils. The World Health Organisation has categorised radon as a carcinogen, in the same group as asbestos and tobacco smoke.

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Ireland's National Inventory Submissions 2016

Year: 2016

Ireland's annual inventory submissions including the National Inventory Report (NIR) and Common Reporting Format (CRF) data files and supplementary information if available. The NIR contains transparent and detailed information on the inventory for years 1990-2015. The CRF tables contain all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals, implied emission factors and activity data.

Ireland's UNECE Submissions 2016

Year: 2016

Ireland's submissions under UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) for 2016 consist only of Annex 1 tables. The Informative Inventory Report was not submitted in 2016. The Annex I tables contain air pollutant emission data and activity data for years 1990-2014

National Allocation Table Changes 1 2016

Pursuant to Article 10A(7) of Directive 2003/87/EC (NIMs) - Updates due to changes to the operation of an installation., April 2016

Year: 2016

Bathing Water Quality in Ireland

A Report for the Year 2015, April 2016

Year: 2016

The quality of Ireland’s bathing waters remains very high with just over 93% of identified bathing waters (128 of 137) meeting the minimum EU standards for ‘Sufficient’ water quality over the 4 year assessment period 2012-2015. Full details can be view in the downloaded report.

Household Radon Exposure In Patients Attending A Rapid Access Lung Cancer Clinic

Year: 2016

This report shows the findings from a study carried out with the HSE in Galway which has a high radon area. Thee Rapid Access Lung Cancer Service at University Hospital was involved in the study.

Guidance Note for Noise: Licence Applications, Surveys and Assessments in Relation to Scheduled Activities (NG4)

Year: 2016

The NG4 guidance note was originally published in 2012, and this current update to NG4 was published in 2016. This revised Noise Guidance Note (NG4) is intended to assist licensed sites with the assessment of their potential and actual noise impact on the local environment. In all cases this revised version of NG4 should be applied by licensees and consultants.

Ambient Air Monitoring in Balbriggan , Dublin

Year: 2015

Ambient Air Monitoring In Balbriggan , Dublin

Ambient Air Monitoring in Mullingar, Westmeath

Year: 2015

Ambient air monitoring in Mullingar, Westmeath

Urban Waste Water Treatment in 2014

Urban Waste Water Treatment in 2014

A Report for the Year 2014, November 2015

Year: 2015

This report provides an overview of urban waste water treatment in Ireland during 2014 and includes an assessment of effluent quality against national and European Standards.

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Developing and Assessing Alternatives in Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)

Year: 2015

Alternatives are fundamental to the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) process. This research report makes recommendations for how to incorporate good practice when considering alternatives in the plan and SEA making process. It also sets out a methodology for how to develop and assess alternatives when carrying out SEA.

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Air Quality in Ireland 2014

Key Indicators of Ambient Air Quality., September 2015

Year: 2015

Ambient air quality trends based on concentration measurements in 2014 of particulate matter, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, black smoke, heavy metals, ozone, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and benzene.

Caighdeán Aeir in Éirinn 2014

Príomhtháscairí Maidir le Caighdeán an Aeir sa Timpeallacht, September 2015

Year: 2015

Soláthraíonn an tuarascáil seo forbhreathnú ar threochtaí maidir le caighdeán an aeir thimpeallaigh in Éirinn i 2014. Tá an anailís a chuirtear i láthair anseo maidir le cáilíocht aeir bunaithe ar thoisí áirithe tiúchana de na truailleáin seo a leanas: leibhéil cháithníní, ózón, ocsaídí Nítrigine, dé-ocsaíd sulfair, luaidhe, aonocsaíd charbóin agus beinséin.

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