Environment

Mining firms to invest more in environmental protection, safety

By Primo Agatep/PNA BAGUIO CITY -- Miners in the Philippines have vowed to intensify efforts for responsible mining and environmental protection to ensure safety within the industry. This, as the Philippine Mine Safety and...

4 bishops bat for coal-free Negros Island

By Erwin Nicavera/PNA SAN CARLOS CITY -- The bishops of the four Roman Catholic dioceses in Negros Island will issue a collegial statement expressing their opposition to the establishment of coal-fired power plants. Bishop...

Climate Change Holds Grim Future, New Study Says

By Kevin Enochs/VOA News WASHINGTON — A new report has taken the results of thousands of papers on the impacts of climate change and put them together into a giant assessment detailing the multiple ways...

SBMA urges neighbors to join recycling effort

By Malou Dungog/PNA SUBIC BAY FREEPORT -- The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) urges communities around the Subic Bay Freeport to participate in its recyclable collection project to minimize the release of wastes...

Belgium lauds Boracay rehab, PH bid on sustainable tourism

By Joyce Ann L. Rocamora/PNA MANILA -- The Duterte administration's decision to rehabilitate Boracay was a "good decision" after all, Belgian Ambassador to Manila Michel Goffin said Thursday. "Let's be frank, when you cleaned...

DENR addresses appeals of 13 mining firms

By Catherine Teves/PNA MANILA -- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has acted on the appeals of 13 mining companies that were ordered either closed or suspended last year. The DENR affirmed...

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