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Palace: No slowdown in Manila Bay crackdown
Malacañang will not let up in its crackdown on business establishments in the Manila Bay area that do not comply with environmental laws, presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo said yesterday. Duterte issued Administrative ...
- March 22, 2019
DILG: Inventory Manila Bay's informal settlers
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has directed barangays to conduct an inventory of the informal settler families (ISFs) living along Manila Bay’s shoreline and the bay’s tributaries, an official ...
- February 3, 2019
DILG: 1,129 barangays failed to join Manila Bay cleanup
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has issued show cause orders to officials of over 1,100 barangays for their alleged failure to help in the Manila Bay cleanup, an official said yesterday. DILG ...
- June 5, 2019
Manila Bay rehab; DENR orders sewage treatment plants put up
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Roy Cimatu yesterday gave establishments surrounding Manila Bay three months to put up their own sewage treatment plants (STPs). “Establishments have to put ...
- January 13, 2019
How to rehab Manila Bay- earth lawyer Oposa
Twenty years ago this month a band of law students and conscientious citizens filed an ambitious lawsuit to make the government clean up Manila Bay. At the time, Jan. 1999, people already were complaining about the stench, ...
- January 18, 2019
Manila Bay cleanup nets 3,810 tons of trash
Some 3,810 tons of garbage, water hyacinth and silt have been collected from coastlines and estuaries draining to Manila Bay since the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) launched its cleanup this year. In ...
- September 10, 2019
Senator wants Manila Bay wetland protected
Sen. Cynthia Villar has renewed her call for the public to protect the Las Piñas - Parañaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism Area (LP-PCHEA) after environmental groups marked the World Wetlands Day last Feb. 2. She reiterated ...
- February 10, 2014
Firefighters join Manila Bay cleanup
At least 175 firemen from Metro Manila joined the cleanup of Manila Bay over the weekend. The firefighters collected trash and declogged drains covering the portion of the bay in Pasay City at around 5:30 a.m. yesterday. ...
- February 18, 2019
DILG to convene mayors on Manila Bay rehab today
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) will convene today 178 city and municipal mayors to discuss the rehabilitation efforts for Manila Bay. DILG Secretary Eduardo Año said the local chief executives’ ...
- February 11, 2019
DENR launches anti-trash campaigne in Bulacan town
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) recently launched here two campaign programs to minimize plastic trash clogging the waterways of the province. Lormelyn Claudio, Environment Management Bureau ...
- July 5, 2018