THE Commission on Appointments on Wednesday rejected the appointment of Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Regina Lopez, ending a bitter tug-of-war over...
A MINING company on Wednesday filed a graft complaint against outgoing Environment Secretary Regina Lopez, whose appointment was rejected by the Commission on Appointments.
In...
THE Commission on Audit has ordered Environment Secretary Regina Lopez to justify the hiring of 55 highly-paid “ghost employees” receiving up to P120,000 a...
MEMBERS of the Commission on Appointments, including a staunch ally of President Rodrigo Duterte, on Tuesday questioned Environment Secretary Regina Lopez about her bias...
ENVIRONMENT Secretary Regina Lopez will defend herself for the last time today before the Commission on Appointments, which must decide by Wednesday whether her...
ENVIRONMENT Secretary Regina Lopez has ordered the creation of a P9.4-billion backyard industry for charcoal making that would exclusively benefit the private company Biochar,...
ENVIRONMENT Secretary Regina Lopez on Thursday banned new open-pit mining.
She blamed open-pit mines for the serious degradation of the environment.
“Each open pit is a...
A HOUSE leader on Friday expressed support for Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea’s decision to suspend the imposition of a P2-million trust fund for every...
EXECUTIVE Secretary Salvador Medialdea on Wednesday rejected the accusation of Environment Secretary Regina Lopez that he was siding with suspended mining companies when he...
BANNING open-pit mining may lead to an energy crisis, an engineering professor told a media forum on Wednesday.
“Open-pit mining is done in most countries...
ENVIRONMENT Secretary Regina Lopez was accused of milking the suspended mining firms by requiring them to put up multi-million-peso trust funds amounting to P2...
Before deciding to bypass the nomination of Regina (Gina) Lopez as Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources after two days of hearings, the members...
ENVIRONMENT Secretary Regina Lopez has been charged with graft and corruption before the Ombudsman for accepting gifts from a private company in exchange for...
