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Pasig River rehab head sacked
President Duterte has terminated the head of the Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission (PRRC) for alleged corruption in the agency, Malacañang announced yesterday. Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo said the ...
- September 11, 2019
Plant mangroves, not cancerous fake sand
Plant mangroves on the entire 190-kilometer coastline of Manila Bay. That will rehab the murky waters not cancerous artificial white sand on a half-kilometer seafront along Roxas Boulevard, Manila. Alibis for the government’s ...
- September 11, 2020
Clean river in 7 years
Much has been said and done about infamous deterioration of the 27-kilometer Pasig River - from when 84-year-old Purificacion "Nanay Puring" Malvas Punzalan could still drink clean, clear water from it in the 1940s to the ...
- September 5, 2012
Boracay: A model of Clean Water
It is an amazing story worthy to be told again and again. Boracay is one of the world's most beautiful islands, until it was rocked with the controversy of being tagged a "cesspool" by no less than the country's president. ...
- April 22, 2019
US pays P87 M for Tubbataha damage
The Philippine government has received P87 million, or $1.97 million, from the United States for the damage caused by the grounding of the minesweeper USS Guardian in Palawan’s Tubbataha Reef two years ago. The Department ...
- February 19, 2015
FirstGen bankrolls Batangas marine ecosystem project
Rey Manalo is an active and vocal advocate of the Bantay Dagat (Sea Patrol) program in Mabini, Batangas. Quite a departure from his younger days when Manalo was a menace to the marine ecosystem of Batangas, being a muro-ami ...
- August 17, 2015
The battle to clean up Manila Bay finally underway
The “Battle for Manila Bay” will be won in seven years, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said Monday. Seven years is such a long time. It is six and a half years longer than it took to clean up ...
- January 31, 2019
Palace takes over all reclamation projects in the country
The Office of the President (OP) now has direct control and supervision over the Philippine Reclamation Authority (PRA), which has jurisdiction over 43 reclamation projects in Manila Bay alone. One reclamation project has ...
- January 5, 2019
SC panel convenes for Bay rehab
The Supreme Court will convene its committee tasked to monitor the implementation of its 2008 order to rehabilitate and revive Manila Bay, an official said Sunday. “The committee on the Manila Bay cleanup should convene ...
- January 21, 2019
DENR firming up Boracay environmental protection
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will strictly enforce environmental rules and guidelines as the dry run for the reopening of famed Boracay Island gets underway on Monday. DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu ...
- October 14, 2018