The European Commission is sending a final warning to Ireland for failing to comply with a European Court of Justice ruling asking it to amend its law on environmental impact assessments.

Legislation designed to help people adversely affected by high hedges near their property has been introduced in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

A ban on quad bike and jet-ski activities in environmentally sensitive locations, originally contained in the proposed legislation to outlaw stag hunting, has been removed from the Wildlife (Amendment) Bill.

The Department of the Environment has confirmed it has given preliminary approval for a foreshore licence to build ship-landing and other facilities for the country’s first liquefied gas terminal on the Shannon estuary.

Mr. John Gormley TD, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government has published the Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2010 to prohibit deer hunting with packs of dogs.

An Taisce has made a formal complaint to the European Commission that plans for a highway between Dublin and Derry involve a 'transboundary breach' of the EU’s directive requiring strategic environmental assessment (SEA) of major projects.

The UCC Law Faculty'S Law and the Environment Conference 2010 will take place on April 22 2010 at the Boole Lecture Theatres 1 & 4, University College Cork.

Northern Ireland Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has welcomed the Northern Ireland Assembly’s support for changes to legislation that will enhance renewable electricity generation.

Parts of the 1000-page REACH chemicals regulation remain unclear and need to be amended in order to speed up the subsitution of hazardous chemicals with safer ones, EU Environment Commissioner Janez Potocnik said last week.

The European Commission is sending a final warning to Ireland over four cases where it has failed to comply with European Court of Justice rulings concerning illegal development and developments that may harm the natural and man-made heritage of the countryside, access to the Irish courts and protection of marine mammals.