ENVIRONMENT Minister Dick Roche last night challenged Roadstone’s assertion that it never knew more than 50,000 tonnes of illegal and partially hazardous waste had been dumped on its land in Wicklow.

The Environmental Protection Agency has refused to give the quarrying company Roadstone permission to construct a landfill in Co Wicklow.

THE head of the country's environmental watchdog has rubbished claims that the Government's health adviser asked it not to licence two incinerators in the absence of a health impact study.

ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency (EPA) director Dr Pádraig Larkin’s insistence (Irish Examiner, May 6) that the agency is responsible for protecting human health from the effects of emissions from licensed facilities is somewhat confusing...