DENR orders landfill operators to submit emergency response plan

MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) ordered all sanitary landfill operators to submit a contingency plan outlining their emergency response measures nearly two weeks after a landfill fire broke out in Navotas City. In a memorandum dated April 22 and made public on Sunday, the DENR’s Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) directed its