The Philippines’ goods trade with the rest of the world grew faster in February, ahead of the conflict in the Middle East posing a threat to the country’s exports. The latest preliminary Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) data on Friday, March 27, showed that total external trade rose 10.7...
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) shut down on Tuesday, Feb. 24, the operation of a landfill in Rodriguez, Rizal after a trash slide that left at least one individual dead. The DENR, through its, Environmental Management Bureau (EMB), issued a cease-and-desist...
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources–Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) said it will conduct a compliance review and issue a notice of violation for any identified non-compliance following a trash slide at a sanitary landfill in Barangay San Isidro, Rodriguez, Rizal on...
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Raphael Lotilla has ordered an investigation into the collapse of the Binaliw Sanitary Landfill in Cebu City that left 36 people dead early this month. Under Special Order No. 2026-32 issued by Lotilla, a Composite Team, which he...
CALASIAO, Pangasinan – Police arrested an employee of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environmental Management Bureau for alleged extortion in an entrapment operation in a gasoline station on Saturday afternoon, Jan. 24, in Barangay Ugad, Cabagan, Isabela. The suspect was...
ILOILO CITY – An environmental group lauded the decision of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) to halt ongoing construction of mountain road projects in Antique province connecting neighboring towns in Iloilo and Capiz provinces. “We...
BACOLOD CITY – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environment Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) in Western Visayas (Region 6) has issued an interim cease and desist order (CDO) on the molasses discharge in the perimeter canal of Binalbagan-Isabela Sugar Co. (Biscom) Inc. in...
DAVAO CITY – The Environmental Management Bureau (EMB)-Davao assured the people that the air quality index (AQI) in Davao region is at “fair to good” levels amid concerns about the possible impact of massive forest fires in Indonesia on the region’s air quality. SMOG envelops the skyline of...
ILOILO CITY – The Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Office (DENR)-Region 6 (Western Visayas) has established water sampling stations in areas hit by the oil slick from a sunken oil tanker in Caluya town, Antique province. WEARING PPEs, a...
The enactment of the Republic Act (RA) 11898 or the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Act of 2022, which seeks to make companies responsible for their plastic packaging, was lauded by the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)....
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ Environmental Management Bureau-National Capital Region (EMB-NCR) recognized the Muntinlupa City government’s program on composting. Composting is the “controlled decomposition of organic matter by microorganisms, mainly bacteria and...
Senator Cynthia Villar has renewed her call to take action for the country's wetlands and appeal to the public to protect them from disappearing. Villar, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, made her call Tuesday during the celebration of World Wetlands' Day...
