Mr. John Gormley, TD, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, has announced the allocation of €1,245,000 in grants to local authorities for public education and awareness initiatives in relation to both litter and graffiti.

The UK government is to launch a campaign to stamp out Britain's waste food mountains as part of a global effort to curb spiralling food prices.

The Sunday Business Post has learned that the Government dropped legal actions in relation to the cost of cleaning up the former steel plant at Haulbowline in Cork four years after it was warned that pollution from the site could pose a high risk to the health of local residents.

The Irish Independent has reported that the Government had proposed turning the contaminated Haulbowline Island in Cork harbour into one of the most 'attractive waterside sites in Europe'.

The Irish Independent has reported that Green Ministers John Gormley and Eamon Ryan held meetings with representatives of a US company seeking to build another incinerator in Dublin.

Well-known solicitor, Gerald Kean has agreed to advise a number of men who have expressed serious concerns for their health after working on the Haulbowline Island toxic waste clean-up.

An overwhelming majority of EU citizens call for the concrete implementation of nuclear waste disposal facilities and for the development of a more common European approach in this field.

Mr. John Gormley, TD, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government has met residents from the Cork area regarding the former steelworks site on Haulbowline.

The Irish Independent has reported that Erin Brockovich, the environmental campaigner who successfully challenged one of America's biggest companies and inspired a Hollywood movie, has urged an Irish community to demand answers about toxic waste dumping.

The Irish Examiner reports that the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government has been accused of a 'cover-up' concerning the extent of highly hazardous waste buried at what has been described as potentially 'the largest and most extensive pollution incident in the history of the State'.