An environmental activist group on Thursday lauded Environment Secretary Gina Lopez for ordering the closure of 21 large-scale mining companies in the country.
In his speech during the 38th National Convention of the Philippine Association of Water Districts, Duterte said the revolutionary forces should not coerce him as he had already “conceded too much, too soon.”
Human rights group ?criticized? ?President Rodrigo Duterte ?for? ?includ?ing? the military and reviv?ing? the Philippine Constabulary ?on? ?the war on illegal drugs, saying that it would result to more human rights violations.
A total of 135 sinkholes were identified by the Mines and Geosciences Bureau in different areas of Island Garden City of Samal in Davao del Norte.
A group of scientist-activist in the Philippines urged the government to institutionalize Project NOAH or the Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards, a responsive disaster prevention and mitigation system.