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Republic Act (RA) 8749, otherwise known as the Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999, mandates, among others, that "x x x No motor vehicle registration shall be issued unless such motor vehicle passes ...
Civil society groups, including EcoWaste Coalition and Caritas Philippines, are calling on newly elected local officials to ...
With the full implementation of Republic Act 8749, otherwise known as the Clean Air Act last Jan. 1, owners of motor vehicles need to have their vehicles tested and certified for emissions ...
Because of the ill-effects of smoking, as well as inhaling secondhand smoke, the government also enacted Republic Act 8749 or the Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999, which bans smoking in public areas.
A network of environmental and civil society groups urged newly elected local government officials to “uphold the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable ...
They added, “The government’s failure to comply with the provisions of the above-mentioned laws (Republic Acts 9003 and 8749) will leave us with no other option but to resort to taking the ...
He noted, however, that ”the emissions and pollutants of WTE plants must conform to global standards and not only the current limits” in Republic Act (RA) 8749 or the Clean Air Act of 1999.
Despite the environmental laws prohibiting the improper disposal of rice straws, such as the Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 (Republic Act 9003) and the Clean Air Act of 1999 (Republic Act 8749 ...
FOR a while, legal minds in the Philippines were in a bit of a quandary about noise pollution. Some argued that the 1999 Clean Air Act (Republic Act 8749) defines air pollutant as any matter that is ...
The Philippines is the first and only country so far to ban incineration under Republic Act No. 8749, or the Philippine Clean Air Act. In September 2020, Senator Sherwin T. Gatchalian backed (Senate ...
Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu on Tuesday has vowed that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will strictly enforce Republic Act 8749 or the Philippine Clean Air Act of 1998 as ...