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Guimaras oil spill exposes ongoing fossil fuel harms
Matuto na sana tayo sa huling major oil spill sa probinsya noong 2006.2 The victims of tanker M/T Solar 1—chartered by Petron—are still fighting to this day for full compensation due to damages to fishing and livelihood 20 years ago.
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Envi, labor groups seek release of probe findings on deadly Binaliw trash slide
Members of the Justice for Prime Waste 39 Network filed a Freedom of Information request seeking full disclosure of documents related to the Binaliw trash slide. Despite earlier commitments from DENR Region 7 to conduct regular public briefings, no official findings from the probe have been released to date.
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The bill is due: Filipino communities demand Unilever pay for decades of plastic pollution
Multisectoral groups from the Philippines have filed a landmark pollution complaint before the Pollution Adjudication Board of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-PAB) against Unilever PLC and Unilever Philippines, Inc.
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Greenpeace challenges PH gov’t over continued fossil fuel dependence as global conference opens in Colombia
Environmental advocates call on Pres. Marcos Jr. to break free from fossil fuels as conference in Santa Marta, Colombia starts.
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Navotas landfill fire latest in dangerous trend of waste disasters
Following the fire at the closed Navotas Sanitary Landfill in Barangay Tanza, Navotas, environmental group Greenpeace Philippines warned that the incident is part of a growing and dangerous pattern of waste catastrophes in the Philippines, underscoring the urgent need to address the country’s waste crisis at source, through reduction.
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Months after deadly trash slides, groups say gaps persist, call out weak policies
Months after the fatal trash slides in Cebu and Rizal, impacted communities and civil society organizations say little has changed in addressing the country’s worsening waste and plastic crisis. The groups gathered at the University of the Philippines Cebu for a public forum to push for stronger accountability and upstream solutions, warning that without strong…
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Local oil, gas expansion to lock PH into fossil fuels, raise emissions amid energy crisis
Greenpeace Philippines is sounding the alarm over the government’s renewed push to further explore oil and gas in the protected Liguasan Marsh—in parallel with those being done in Tawi-Tawi, Cebu and Malampaya
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Marcos energy emergency declaration must deliver systemic and climate-responsive reforms, aside from much-needed immediate relief
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s declaration of a national energy emergency must deliver immediate relief to Filipinos amid staggering oil price hikes and the US-Iran war, as the country remains under a year-long state of calamity.
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PH Environmental Groups Apprehensive of DENR Sec. Cuna Appointment
We, environmental justice groups, express serious concern over the appointment of Undersecretary Juan Miguel Cuna as the new Acting Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
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Greenpeace: Trash slides are bound to happen again, PH government must act now
Communities residing near Binaliw Landfill hold a candle lighting vigil, expressing their indignation for the suffering they are experiencing from the impacts of the neighboring dumpsite. Last January, 36 waste workers lost their lives to the trash slide that buried the waste segregation facility they were working in. Weeks after the tragedy in Binaliw, a…