THE Green Party yesterday warned its participation in a future government would be conditional on radical reform of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ZEMBLANITY is a word Eugenia Whelan can identify with.

A MAJOR environmental row is about to re-ignite in Co Meath following the decision by Indaver Ireland to reapply for permission to increase the size of its waste incinerator just one month after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the original plan.

A waste management company is to lodge a new planning application seeking to increase the size of a controversial incineration plant being built in Co Meath, it emerged today.

The company building a waste incinerator near Duleek in Co Meath is to lodge a new planning application.

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.

The Green Party has reiterated its opposition to the municipal waste incinerator planned for Carranstown, Co Meath.

An oral hearing into the proposed granting of a waste licence for a controversial incinerator project in Co Meath is due to get underway today.

ANTI-INCINERATION groups will protest today at the opening of an oral hearing into plans to burn household waste at a thermal treatment plant in Co Meath.

The Environmental Protection Agency has arranged an oral hearing for next month into a controversial waste incinerator planned for Co Meath.

THE Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted oral hearings to objectors to the country’s first toxic waste incinerator in County Cork and the first proposed municipal waste incinerator in County Meath.

ENVIRONMENT Minister Dick Roche last night defended the decision by the Environment Protection Agency to grant licences to two incinerators in Cork and Meath.

THE incinerator company executive appointed to the Environmental Protection Agency is set to be questioned by an Oireachtas committee about her views on waste management.

GREEN PARTY leaders today meet EU Environment Commissioner Margot Walstrom’s to formally complain about plans to build Irish incinerators.

ANGRY residents at the site of the country’s first commercial toxic waste incinerator vowed last night to take their battle to the High Court.

OBJECTORS to the country’s first household waste incinerator are to continue their fight in the courts after An Bord Pleanála cleared the construction of the facility yesterday.

An Bord Pleanala has postponed its ruling on a controversial waste incinerator planned for Co Meath.

IRELAND has insufficient resources to carry out adequate risk assessments for proposed waste management facilities, a report revealed yesterday.

Green Party leader Trevor Sergeant has claimed that a proposed incinerator near Drogheda in Co Louth would threaten the future of the horticultural industry in north Co Dublin.