Teresita Mabignay does her ironing using free of electricity on the slope of a garbage dump, an unlikely beneficiary of efforts to turn the Philippines’ growing rubbish problems into a clean-energy windfall.
The municipal government of Bolinao, Pangasinan, has asked the owners of the sunken ship, MV Harita Bauxite, to immediately stop the vessel’s oil from spilling into the West Philippine Sea to prevent it from causing further damage to coastal communities.
The United States Navy has disqualified its contractor in the country from joining future bids after a Senate inquiry established the firm’s liability and recommended sanctions for dumping untreated sewage in Philippine waters near Subic Bay.
The World Bank has extended for another year its funding of a 5-year program worth $57 million that supports projects of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) from wildlife management to the improvement of air quality and the rehabilitation of Manila Bay.
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The municipal government of Glan has filed criminal charges against 11 crewmen of a Malaysian lighterage company accused of dumping an unspecified amount of coal residue from their barge and tugboat into Sarangani Bay two months ago.
The Filipino captain and second officer of a ship that caused New Zealand’s biggest sea pollution disaster pleaded guilty to criminal charges Wednesday and could face lengthy jail terms, officials said.
Smoke-belching and noisy tricycles will hopefully soon be a thing of the past on Boracay Island.
What is new in Cebu? First we have a new vice governor in the person of Agnes Magpale. She replaced former Vice Gov. Greg Sanchez who died of lung cancer. I know that Greg was un happy in his last days at the Capitol. It is for this that I do not wish to say [...]
ENVIRONMENT stakeholders are calling for the implementation of a new cease-and-desist order against the Korean Electric Power Corp.-Salcon Power Corp. (Kepco-SPC) coal-fired power plant in Naga after measures to contain coal dust pollution allegedly failed. “With our present data and the status of coal dust reaching our house, a new CDO should be issued,” said [...]
Usa pa sa tulo ang gikonbikto ug gisentensiyahan kagahapon ni RTC Judge Generosa Labra ug double reclusion perpetua niadtong pagtagod-tagod sa lawas sa mag-agaw’ng Eva Mae Peligro ug Gwendolyn Balasta. Ang gikonbikto mao pa si Joseph Roy Cellar alyas Jojo Delos Reyes kay pormal na siya’ng miangkon sa krimen atubangan sa korte. Pabayron siya ug [...]
