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Caroline O'Doherty

@codohertynews

Environment Correspondent at the Irish Independent. Views personal. DMs open. [email protected]

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Water quality at our beaches & lakeside swimming spots is good & improving, latest test results show but....testing is limited, pollution incidents still occur too frequently and increasingly heavy rain is washing untreated rain overflows onto coastlines m.independent.ie/irish-news/rev…

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An effort will be made in the High Court to reopen main access to Castletown House for summer and begin process of finding a permanent legal solution to impasse m.independent.ie/irish-news/cas…

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The anti-whaling ship used by Captain Paul Watson Foundation 🐋🏴‍☠️ is docked in Dublin for the next few weeks. Public welcome to call by for a tour and to talk to the crew m.independent.ie/irish-news/fro…

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Friends of the Irish Environment FIE News Service are taking judicial review proceedings against An Bord Pleanála's granting of planning permission to Shannon LNG for a power plant m.independent.ie/irish-news/sha…

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56% of septic tanks inspected last year were faulty. If the statistic from the sample applies generally, that would mean 250,000 tanks releasing untreated or poorly treated sewage into gardens, streams, ditches & rivers EPA Ireland is concerned m.independent.ie/irish-news/pub…

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As the temperature and number of consecutive dry days increase, so too do concerns about water supplies m.independent.ie/weather/sevent…

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🚗💸 Looking to speak to people who face long daily commutes — not out of choice, but because they’ve been priced out of living near where they work. 📩 Contact: [email protected] RTs appreciated. DMs are open #JournalistRequest #journorequest #HousingCrisis #CommuteLife

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"Instead of 'drill, baby, drill', it's 'dig, drain and destroy'. Roderic O'Gorman Roderic O’Gorman TD takes junior minister Michael Healy-Rae to task over his planting on peatlands plan m.independent.ie/irish-news/gre…

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Plans are being made to take down Derrybrien & Arklow Bank, the 1st of many wind farms due to be decommissioned in the coming years. But what will they leave behind & are there alternatives to removing them? Thnx to Jerry Mac Evilly Friends of the Earth for input m.independent.ie/irish-news/the…

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Fish in heat stress, more water supplies in drought - the prolonged warm, dry weather is creating challenges m.independent.ie/irish-news/ang…

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Prof Celeste Saulo, head of World Meteorological Organization, was in Ireland this week. She speaks here about improving forecasts, climate change, corporate hypocrisy and the motivating power of love m.independent.ie/irish-news/its…

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Govt wants to exempt 466 Irish rivers from having to meet standards high enough to support healthy natural habitats. Sustainable Water Network (SWAN) FIE News Service The Rivers Trust Pádraic Fogarty are pleading for the plan to be stalled m.independent.ie/irish-news/pla…

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Going backwards: government departments reassessed how they're doing in getting rid of fossil fuels from our lives and EPA Ireland has had to revise down the emissions cuts we're likely to achieve by 2030 #climate m.independent.ie/irish-news/ire…

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'Impossible just a few years ago' Latest from World Meteorological Organization & Met Office - UK shows record or near-record heat to continue and there's a tiny but alarming chance of hitting 2C of warming before 2030 m.independent.ie/world-news/afr…

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It's the dilemma that won't go away - data centres eating up so much power there may be nothing left for new homes. But while the Government tries to assure it's all in hand, remarks by the sec gen of the Department of Energy suggest otherwise m.independent.ie/irish-news/pow…