Friday, September 4, 2026

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Waste-to-Energy Won’t Solve Garbage Crisis

FOR ALL THE hype that the President has been bragging on the so-called waste-to-energy projects as the solution to the garbage crisis, many say its contribution to power supply would at best be only marginal. “WTE can trim the volume of residual waste going to landfills, but that is the limit of its usefulness,” Noel M. Baga, co-convenor of think tank Center for Energy Research and Policy, told Business World. “It manages waste after the fact rather than reducing it at...
NOT even an assurance coming from no less than President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. himself doesn't seem enough guarantee that...
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THE SUCCESSFUL surgical separation of Olivia and Gianna Manuel does not stand alone; it is the latest, shining link...
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CITING an existing law recognizing, protecting, and promoting their rights to ancestral domains, Aeta leaders from Capas, Tarlac opposed...
AS CLIMATE CHANGE, environmental degradation, and unsustainable patterns of living continue to threaten communities across the country, environmental advocates,...
THE administration is expected to work double time in an effort to recover from the rapidly waning public trust...
NOTWITHSTANDING public howl over its alleged overcharging, the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) managed to secure congressional concurrence for a...
LIFE in the Philippines is not getting any better — and kids as young as five years old must...
A GLOBAL RESEARCH from Gallup, the World Health Organization, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and the National...
THE HUGELY ELITE-dominated and illusionary partylist system must be amended as it has drifted far from its democratic foundations...
FORECASTS issued by the United Nations (UN)'s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) have strengthened warnings that climate scientists have been...
FOR THE LONGEST time, people must be wondering the logic behind the government’s preference to import rice—even at the...
ATTORNEY Villanueva Alonso, producer of Quantum Films, has directed actress Anne Curtis Wednesday afternoon the misogynistic remarks of Quezon...
WHEN NEW TAX laws are passed, it hits first the working sector, referred to as the middle class –...
IF THE NATIONAL Capital Region has the highest daily nominal minimum wage of P695 while other regions subsist below...
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AMID extreme poverty, Filipinos have sought refuge from online loan apps to make both ends meet, with borrowings mostly...
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