AN ENVIRONMENT group in San Mateo town has challenged the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to revoke all environment compliance certificates of businesses it claimed are destroying the forested parts of the town.
In a convention of about 500 residents on Sunday in Barangay Banaba, the People’s Response for the Protection of the Environment of [...]
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Jose Atienza Jr. has withdrawn his promise to revoke the environmental compliance certificate (ECC) issued to San Mateo Sanitary Landfill in Rizal province, saying he is leaving the project’s fate with the local court.
Atienza issued the statement following the cancellation of a 10-day reevaluation of the San [...]
MALABON CITY, March 28, 2009— The residents of San Mateo, environmental activists, and businessmen flocked the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) headquarters today, to seek dialogue with DENR Sec. Lito Atienza regarding the new landfill project in municipality of San Mateo, Rizal province.
This is to follow up the earlier pronouncement Atienza saying that [...]
Members of Mamamayan Laban sa Tambakan ng Basura sa San Mateo (LabanTambakan) are now preparing to file a citizen suit with the Environmental Task Force of the Office of the Ombudsman against Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Joselito Atienza for approving the operation of the so-called new “sanitary landfill” in San Mateo, Rizal in violation [...]
THE ENVIRONMENT department has ordered the municipal government of Rodriguez in the province of Rizal to stop the construction and operation of an open dumpsite in barangays San Jose and Macabud.
In a cease and desist order dated Jan. 16, the regional office of the Environment department ordered Rodriguez Mayor Pedro F. Cuerpo to “implement mitigating [...]
Bucking opposition by environment activists, the operator of the San Mateo waste dump is ready to give it a go.Andy Santiago, president of the San Mateo Sanitary Landfill and Development Corp., said it has given the green light for the 19-hectare facility in Rizal province to do business.
“The San Mateo landfill is technically operational and [...]
THE DEPARTMENT of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has directed an investigation on a new dump site in San Mateo, Rizal province amid complaints by residents and nongovernmental organizations that it is within a protected area.
“I am having it double-checked so that we are able to make a decision on the matter,” Environment Secretary Jose [...]
Concerned communities in San Mateo, Rizal have expressed grave concern on reports of an ongoing and allegedly illegal construction of a new landfill in Barangay Malay.
They warned of a potential ecological catastrophe since it is being constructed within the protected forest zone of San Mateo and the declared Marikina Watershed Reservation Area, threatening underground water [...]
