Post by
BaldSilverHead on Jun 12, 2024 6:50am
He isn’t the first Lopez
In December 2021, the Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) reversed the 4-year-old ban on open-pit metal mining, which was a legacy of former DENR-Secretary Gina Lopez, an environmentalist and philanthropist who passed away in 2019. Now projects are evaluated on scientific or "factually driven" criteria.