The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) warns that rural turf fires, coal and wood burning, alongside city traffic, are hindering Ireland's efforts to improve air quality and protect public health. The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that there are no safe levels of air pollutants such as particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and ozone.
Rural turf, coal and wood fires, as well as city traffic, are impacting Ireland 's push to clean up our air and protect people's health, according to the Environment al Protection Agency.
While Ireland met EU air quality standards in 2023, the environmental watchdog says we are not on track to hit targets set out to meet more stringent World Health Organisation guidelines for the amount of harmful pollutants in the air. The EPA has increased the number of air quality monitoring stations across the country from 29 in 2017 to 115, allowing for hourly updates and more in-depth analysis of the issue.
A major expert assessment commissioned by the Irish Heart Foundation and British Heart Foundation Northern Ireland, published in 2023, found 2,600 excess deaths can be attributed to dirty air across the island of Ireland each year. High levels of these pollutants are often associated with cold, still weather from late autumn through to early spring, when generally incidents of poor air quality of one to two days' duration occur. The report identifies that using less solid fuel and cleaner fuels to heat our homes, making our homes more energy efficient and reducing our use of cars to go to school, work and play, are actions that will contribute towards achieving our Clean Air targets.
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