President Rodrigo Duterte has reappointed four of his Cabinet secretaries bypassed by the Commission on Appointments (CA), the Office of the Executive Secretary (OES) said Monday (April 17) night.

A pro-environment group has expressed yesterday its full support to the proposed mining ban in this province.

Environment Secretary Regina Paz Lopez may have came out with another order that is redundant and unnecessary and Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB), an attached agency to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) tasked to regulate the mining...

Vale and Eramet have been forced to suspend operations at nickel mines in New Caledonia following a Category 3 cyclone that hit the country on Monday April 10.

A suspended Philippine nickel miner has asked President Rodrigo Duterte to allow it to ship ore stockpiles after some cargoes were seized as tensions escalated over a required fee it claimed was illegal.

Environment Secretary Gina Lopez will not overturn her decision to require suspended mining companies who want to remove their stockpiles to allot additional P2 million for a trust fund.

Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (COMP), which is composed of the country’s biggest miners, will contest the order of Environment Secretary Gina Lopez to impose additional trust fund for suspended mining companies.

Environment Secretary Gina Lopez has called out Finance Secretary Carlos “Sonny” Dominguez for trying to “usurp” her powers through the creation of the Mining Industry Coordinating Council (MICC).