From the News! - Your Daily News » Environment http://fromthenews.net Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:10:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Protect women — CHR http://fromthenews.net/protect-women-%e2%80%94-chr.htm http://fromthenews.net/protect-women-%e2%80%94-chr.htm#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:35:02 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=5264

by Joel dela Torre
from People’s Journal

MARKING the United Nations Day for Women and International Peace today, the Commission on Human Rights called on government to improve protection and programs for the rights of women.

The CHR said … Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/protect-women-%e2%80%94-chr.htm/feed 1 Aerial pesticide row tests powers of LGU http://fromthenews.net/aerial-pesticide-row-tests-powers-of-lgu.htm http://fromthenews.net/aerial-pesticide-row-tests-powers-of-lgu.htm#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:12:09 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=4907 Yasmin D. Arquiza, Vera Files
Manila Times

Editor’s note: The first part reported how Davao City officials and farmers in that area are fighting aerial pesticide spraying, which they say is killing crops and making people sick. But the banana … Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/aerial-pesticide-row-tests-powers-of-lgu.htm/feed 0 700 drums of suspected toxic waste found in Bulacan; 8 arrested http://fromthenews.net/700-drums-of-suspected-toxic-waste-found-in-bulacan-8-arrested.htm http://fromthenews.net/700-drums-of-suspected-toxic-waste-found-in-bulacan-8-arrested.htm#comments Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:33:24 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=4268 Dino Balabo
Philippine Star

PANDI, Bulacan – About 700 drums of suspected toxic waste were discovered by local police after the arrest of eight persons who were caught red handed while dumping the same in a vacant lot here over … Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/700-drums-of-suspected-toxic-waste-found-in-bulacan-8-arrested.htm/feed 0 36% of Pinoys say pollution an ‘acceptable tradeoff’ for economic progress – SWS http://fromthenews.net/36-of-pinoys-say-pollution-an-%e2%80%98acceptable-tradeoff%e2%80%99-for-economic-progress-%e2%80%93-sws.htm http://fromthenews.net/36-of-pinoys-say-pollution-an-%e2%80%98acceptable-tradeoff%e2%80%99-for-economic-progress-%e2%80%93-sws.htm#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:27:50 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=3650 Philippine Star

Thirty-six percent of Filipinos agree that pollution is “an acceptable tradeoff” for economic progress which could have implications on the government and private groups’ campaign to protect the environment, a recent survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) … Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/36-of-pinoys-say-pollution-an-%e2%80%98acceptable-tradeoff%e2%80%99-for-economic-progress-%e2%80%93-sws.htm/feed 0 SC designates 117 environment courts http://fromthenews.net/sc-designates-117-environment-courts.htm http://fromthenews.net/sc-designates-117-environment-courts.htm#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:49:33 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=3503 Leila Salaverria
Philippine Daily Inquirer

MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court has designated 117 trial courts as “environmental courts” to hear cases involving violations of laws protecting the country’s natural resources and to speed up their resolution.

In a resolution, … Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/sc-designates-117-environment-courts.htm/feed 0 Environmentalists to govt: Manage garbage, don’t promote landfills, dumps http://fromthenews.net/environmentalists-to-govt-manage-garbage-don%e2%80%99t-promote-landfills-dumps.htm http://fromthenews.net/environmentalists-to-govt-manage-garbage-don%e2%80%99t-promote-landfills-dumps.htm#comments Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:01:13 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=3781 Nora O. Gamolo
Manila Times

First of two parts

Government has only worsened the country’s waste problem by putting up new landfills and dumps. The solution is really to minimize garbage by reducing, reusing and recycling materials where possible, as … Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/environmentalists-to-govt-manage-garbage-don%e2%80%99t-promote-landfills-dumps.htm/feed 0 The cost of clean air http://fromthenews.net/the-cost-of-clean-air.htm http://fromthenews.net/the-cost-of-clean-air.htm#comments Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:59:34 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=3780 Manila Times

The Philippine government has been losing around $2 million annually since 2002 and will stand to lose more until 2014 if it continues to pay for the 26 discarded incinerators that were supposed to be used to dispose … Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/the-cost-of-clean-air.htm/feed 0 Victims of toxic mine tailings file class suit vs. Marcopper http://fromthenews.net/victims-of-toxic-mine-tailings-file-class-suit-vs-marcopper.htm http://fromthenews.net/victims-of-toxic-mine-tailings-file-class-suit-vs-marcopper.htm#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2004 04:00:00 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=1570 The Manila Times

SOME 105 victims of harmful mine tailings disposal in Calancay Bay in Santa Cruz, Marinduque, have filed a P50-billion class suit against Marcopper Mining Corp. and its Canadian parent company, Placer Dome.

Ronaldo Gutierrez, legal counsel and … Read the rest

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