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Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu has reminded the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) to ensure that appropriate environmental and social safeguards are met in the implementation of the Kaliwa Dam project, which has been recently granted a Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) by the environment department. Cimatu said the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)—through […]
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Roy Cimatu has vowed to increase bamboo seedling planting under the National Greening Program (NGP) from 20 percent to 40 to 45 percent due to its high survival rate and usability as compared to other tree or plant seedlings. In an interview during his visit at CS […]
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has reduced its backlog of cases by 62 percent over the course of one year, according to its Legal Affairs Service (LAS). In his inventory report submitted to Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu, LAS director Norlito Eneran said the DENR’s case backlog went down to 559 in January […]
Secretary Roy Cimatu has expressed hope the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) would receive the P3.036 billion additional funding it needed to bankroll three crucial programs the agency will start to implement next year. “We are hopeful the budget augmentation will be included in the final version of the 2020 General Appropriations Bill […]
Water utility firm Boracay Tubi System Inc. (BTSI) has assured there is no direct discharge of untreated wastewater into open sea and that it is operating a complete waterworks system with septage management. In a statement, BTSI said its joint water sampling conducted with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in its interceptor […]
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) welcomed the recent coastal clean-up activities by volunteers but maintains that local government units (LGUs) nationwide must still be the prime solid waste management movers in their respective areas of jurisdiction and address the problem of garbage. Rey Aguinaldo, chief of DENR-National Capital Region (NCR) regional office’s […]
Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu is looking forward to a “more efficient and environmentally sustainable” mining in the country with the recent signing of a landmark mining cooperation agreement between the Philippines and Japan. “We are gradually entering into a new realm and climbing greater heights when it comes to mining with this cooperation with the […]
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is supporting the government’s plan of sourcing additional water supply from the Laguna Lake to address the perennial water woes of Metro Manila, Secretary Roy Cimatu said. During the agency’s presentation of its proposed P25 billion budget for 2020, Cimatu told the House Committee on Appropriations that […]
More than 3,810 tons of garbage, water hyacinth and silt have been removed from the Manila Bay coastline and drainage system discharging to the bay since government started its rehabilitation program, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) said. In the MMDA’s Manila Bay rehabilitation report, collected from Jan. 7 to Aug. 31 were: • 2,639 […]
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is open to volunteers for simultaneous coastal cleanup activities in the National Capital Region (NCR) during the annual International Coastal Cleanup Day (ICCD). Institutions and groups interested in joining the September 21 simultaneous cleanup, using their own resources, may already inform the DENR’s NCR office about their […]