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DENR voids ECCs of Boracay firms
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has suspended the environmental compliance certificates (ECC) of all business establishments in Boracay Island pending review of their compliance with Environmental ...
- July 20, 2018
DENR clears Boracay establishments
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has lifted the suspension on the environmental compliance certificates (ECCs) of some businesses in Boracay a few weeks before the reopening of the island. DENR ...
- October 15, 2018
Boracay full rehab complete by Dec. 2019
The world-famous Boracay Island would be completely rehabilitated by December next year according to Bernadette Romulo-Puyat, secretary of the Department of Tourism (DOT). Addressing senators during the agency's budget ...
- September 14, 2018
Cabinet may take up Boracay issue today
Proposals on the closure of Boracay Island may be taken up at the Cabinet meeting today, Senior Deputy Executive Secretary Menardo Guevarra said yesterday. He said a more detailed proposal has been submitted by an inter-agency ...
- April 4, 2018
PCSO partners with Navy, DENR for coastal cleanup
Marine pollution — as people know but do not really pay attention to – is any human-made material that is thrown, abandoned or amassed on the coast, bay, beach, waterways that lead to the ocean, or in the ocean itself. ...
- December 26, 2018
Aboitiz, EDC help clean Boracay, adopt wetlands
Two companies have signed agreements with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to sustain the efforts in cleaning Boracay island. Lopez-led power firm Energy Development Corp. through BINHI, its ...
- August 17, 2018
Volunteers turn up for SM coastal cleanup drive
In an unprecedented attendance, 7,086 registered volunteers took part in this year’s SM By the Bay Cleanup Drive. Held in partnership with the SM Mall of Asia, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Pasay City ...
- October 1, 2018
What's going on in Benham Rise?
The decision of the Duterte government to allow Chinese scientists to do research in Benham Rise, renamed Philippine Rise, a 13-million-hectare undersea region off the provinces of Isabela and Aurora has generated heated ...
- January 29, 2018
Heavy pollutants plague Seven Lakes
The appearance of white worms bodes ill for the Seven Lakes of San Pablo, Laguna. The worms, called by local fishermen "puting bulate," are found in the guts of Nile tilapia caught in the Seven Lakes. The worms have alerted ...
- March 27, 2018
Cleaning the lake
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is at the head of Government efforts to clean important tourist attractions such as Boracay, Bohol, and Palawan. While they are at it, it would be better if concerned ...
- December 20, 2018