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Antipolo firm may be sued over oil leak
Officials of Teresa town in Rizal province—which ended up a “catch basin” for spilled bunker fuel—were considering suing the cement company responsible for leaking oil into the Teresa River. Marlon Pielago, Teresa environment ...
- September 10, 2015
The language of climate change
Global warming has become a catch-all phrase to explain everything that goes wrong in the environment these days, even among Filipinos, whether they live in urban centers or out in the farms or the hinterlands. But while ...
- January 21, 2015
Senator Villar: Manila bay 5 times dirtier now
Manila Bay is now five times dirtier compared to its condition in 2008 when the Supreme Court ordered 13 national agencies to restore it to a state “fit for swimming and other forms of recreation,” Sen. Cynthia Villar said ...
- September 25, 2018
'Toilet' incident on video partly closes Boracay beach
Tourism Secretary Berna Romulo Puyat on Wednesday said authorities had closed a portion of Station 1 on Boracay Beach for 48 to 72 hours to conduct a clean up following a viral social media post on Monday that showed two ...
- August 15, 2019
Boracay corals dying fast, says group
After concerns have been raised about the deteriorating water quality at a portion of the pristine White Beach of the island in Malay, Aklan province, a coral reef rehabilitation group has now reported mass dying of corals. ...
- March 21, 2015
Senate bill to require buyback of plastics
The Senate plans to push legislation to require beverage manufacturers to buy back plastic bottles sold at supermarkets and retail and help reduce the country’s plastic pollution. The country, along with China, Indonesia, ...
- June 30, 2018
Pampanga wetland named site of 'International Importance'
The 3,667.31-hectare Sasmuan Pampanga Coastal Wetland (SPCW) has been listed as a “wetland of international importance” under the Ramsar Convention standards, an official said on Wednesday. Martha Rojas Urrego, secretary-general ...
- February 4, 2021
Bigger cleanup campaign
Almost a million metric tons of silt and solid waste. To be exact, 806,084. That’s how much material has been removed by San Miguel Corp. from the Pasig River and the Tullahan-Tinajeros River system since the conglomerate ...
- January 5, 2022
Environmentalists tell Nestlé: Stop using plastics
Environmental groups on Thursday demanded that global giant Nestlé end its dependence on single-use plastic, citing waste audit reports that named the multinational company as one of the top sources of plastic pollution. ...
- April 13, 2019
Boracay cleanup jacks up Ayala unit’s capex
The Ayala group unit that is one of the two water service providers on Boracay Island expects its capital expenditures this year to rise to P700 million from P677 million amid cleanup efforts in the area. Joseph Michael ...
- June 23, 2018