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Town, fishermen demand P132M for damage from 2013 oil spill.
The Cordova municipal government and a group of fishermen are seeking about P132 million in damage payment from the owners of two vessels that last year collided and leaked oil, polluting the town’s marine environment. The ...
- August 16, 2014
‘Battle of Manila Bay’ waged kilo by kilo
It’s an unusual order that requires strict compliance every week: Keep weighing scales handy and make sure to count and measure well. Interior Secretary Eduardo Año has directed local government officials to organize teams ...
- January 27, 2019
Boracay houses demolished: Clearing of wetlands in resort island starts as settlers plead for relocation
Rogie Ascaño came home from work on Saturday, finding four rooms of his house demolished by a team supervised by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). The team also tore down three houses built in a ...
- May 14, 2018
CDO issued vs. 5 Bay ‘pollutants’
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources through the Laguna Lake Development Authority on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order on five commercial establishments for water pollution at Manila Bay. LLDA served ...
- February 20, 2019
Company that dumped medical waste into sea faces suspension
The Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Central Visayas recommended to EMB-Manila the suspension of the operation of the Davao City Environmental Care, ...
- January 18, 2019
Mayor Espinosa slams critics on river project
The Iloilo- Batiano River was sustained during his term. This was the reaction of Mayor Jose Espinosa III to criticisms that he only took over the Iloilo-Batiano River Rehabilitation Project from Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog ...
- October 17, 2018
DENR: no forced evacuation of Boracay wetlands residents
“We have to find a place for them... we will recover the wetlands because this is like the kidneys of the island. But before we ask them to leave the wetlands... we have to find a relocation site for them. This is one of ...
- May 30, 2018
Cimatu: Cut down on plastics that clog oceans
Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Roy Cimatu has called upon Filipinos to cut down on the use of plastics that often end up in oceans and threaten marine life. Cimatu, who made the appeal during the department’s ...
- March 12, 2019
Bamboo to save Laguna Lake
Calamba City, Laguna — The government has laid out an elaborate plan to cover one million hectares of watershed, riverbanks and lakeshores with 200 million seedlings of high and commercially productive variety of bamboo ...
- April 28, 2017
Plan B if fish cages destroyed
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said Friday his department must come up with a back-up plan to ensure enough supply of fish in Metro Manila once the dismantling of the fish pens in Laguna de Bay starts. The fish pens ...
- August 6, 2016