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[Title] => Green group scores pols, cops for smashing TV sets
[Summary] => Politicians and police officials should stop breaking television sets confiscated in campaigns against the illegal “video karera” gambling game, an environment watchdog said yesterday.
[DatePublished] => 2012-07-28 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1685860
[AuthorName] => Rhodina Villanueva
[SectionName] => Metro
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[Title] => Environmentalists call for Phl's active participation in Switzerland confab
[Summary] => Environmental groups wrote the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and asked its officials to ensure that the aim of a treaty that is to protect public health and the environment from extremely harmful chemicals will be pushed at a conference in Geneva this week.
[DatePublished] => 2011-04-26 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
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[AuthorID] => 1685860
[AuthorName] => Rhodina Villanueva
[SectionName] => Nation
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[Title] => Government quizzed on toxic pesticide recovered from sunken ship
[Summary] => A toxic waste watchdog yesterday asked the government to issue a report on the status of some 10 metric tons of endosulfan, a highly toxic pesticide, retrieved from the M/V Princess of the Stars, which capsized off Sibuyan Island in Romblon on June 21, 2008.
[DatePublished] => 2010-10-07 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1685860
[AuthorName] => Rhodina Villanueva
[SectionName] => Nation
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[Title] => UN bans nine more toxic chemicals
[Summary] => GENEVA (Xinhua) - Over 160 governments have agreed at a week-long meeting in Geneva to ban or restrict nine more toxic chemicals, including insecticide Lindane, the United Nations Environment Programme announced yesterday.
[DatePublished] => 2009-05-10 14:01:19
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[Title] => DENR urged to support ban on 'nasty' chemicals
[Summary] => MANILA, Philippines – Environmental groups yesterday called on the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to actively support global action to ban nine more “extremely nasty” chemicals that pose significant risk to human and ecological health, as they pushed for the expansion of the original 12 Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) under the Stockholm Convention.
[DatePublished] => 2009-04-30 00:00:00
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[Title] => Chicken eggs from Cavite b’gay have high levels of toxins
[Summary] => Bad eggs.
This appeared to be the case of chicken eggs from a barangay in Trece Martirez, Cavite after a study found them with high levels of toxins dangerous to human health.
The Ecological Waste Coalition (EcoWaste Coalition) released the report on the toxicity of chicken eggs from Barangay Aguado yesterday in time for the celebration of World Earth Day today.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-22 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1097177
[AuthorName] => Katherine Adraneda
[SectionName] => Nation
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[Title] => Importation, use of PCBs monitored
[Summary] => The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will now strictly monitor the importation and use of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).
In line with this, Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Elisea Gozun has issued Administrative Order 2004-01, or the chemical control order, that provides the guidelines for the proper utilization, disposal and storage of PCBs, including the clean-up of PCB-contaminated sites.
[DatePublished] => 2004-04-15 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1097368
[AuthorName] => Mike Frialde
[SectionName] => Nation
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[Title] => That we may breathe clean, healthy air
[Summary] => Themes guide in undertaking two major air quality improvement activities this September. They are "Save Our Sky: There Is A Hole Lot More To Do For Our Children" dubbed by United Nationa Environment Programme, the Protection of the Ozone Layer and "Persistent Organic Pollutants: The Challenge to the Academe" for the educators’ assembly.
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-14 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1168285
[AuthorName] => Benny G. Enriquez
[SectionName] => Business
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[Title] => Training on POPs set
[Summary] => Concern over the effects of persistent organic pollutants or POPs on the health of human beings and wildlife is increasing as people become more conscious about the relationship of environmental pollution with various health problems. POPs are chemical substances that persist in the environment, bioaccumulate through food web and can adversely affect human health and the environment.
In line with this, the DENR-Environment Management Bureau will hold a training course on inventory of POPs, especially pesticides, on May 26-29 at the Manila Galleria Suites in Ortigas Center.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-25 00:00:00
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[SectionName] => Agriculture
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[Title] => Better alternatives to hospital waste incinerators
[Summary] => Thermal and chemical technologies are cheaper and more effective alternatives to incineration of hospital wastes which is found to emit dangerous pollutants in the environment, a US-based Filipino chemist said.
Dr. Jorge Emmanuel, who specializes in the management of hazardous and biohazardous waste, said he personally recommends thermal technology in the form of "autoclaving," because it is cheaper than high-tech incinerators and uses steam to destroy pathogens.
[DatePublished] => 2001-08-20 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
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[SectionName] => Science and Environment
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August 20, 2001 - 12:00am
