{"id":52874,"date":"2015-06-24T21:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=52874"},"modified":"2015-06-24T21:00:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T13:00:33","slug":"dti-sued-for-worsening-air-pollution-in-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/24\/dti-sued-for-worsening-air-pollution-in-metro\/","title":{"rendered":"DTI sued for worsening air pollution in Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_52997\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52997\" style=\"width: 176px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/download-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52997\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/download-12.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"176\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Advocates of clean air on Tuesday filed a complaint against the Department of Trade and Industry\u00a0for the worsening of air pollution in Metro Manila.<\/p>\n<p>The Coalition of Clean Air Advocates of the Philippines (CCAP) filed the complaint, similar to the case they filed against the Land Transportation Office (LTO), three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>The advocates asked the Office of the Ombudsman to file criminal and administrative charges against Trade Secretary Gregory Domingo and\u00a0Undersecretary Victorio Mario Dimagiba.<\/p>\n<p>This is for their alleged failure to comply with their responsibilities as mandated under the Philippine Clean Air Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the passage of the Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999, secretaries and undersecretaries have come and gone but to date\u2026 we continue to see and experience a lack of meaningful results\u2026 simply because of the herein respondents\u2019 neglect,\u201d the complainants indicated in their statement.<\/p>\n<p>The advocates are\u00a0represented by chair Leo Olarte, president Herminio Buerano Jr., activist priest Robert Reyes, and transportation group leaders Efren de Luna and Ramon Ventura.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The neglect is not a simple matter. Rather, it may be borne or brought about by a strong lobby of vested interests that did not want proper implementation of the law, in order that profitable nefarious activities could be undertaken with impunity, in perpetuity,\u201d the complaint \u00a0further indicated.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to a Philippine Daily Inquirer report written by Amy Remo and Jaymee Gamil, Dimagiba admitted that the agency needs to improve on the performance of their functions as indicated in the Clean Air Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe admit that we need to strengthen the communication and coordination activities among our offices to respond to what the Clean Air Act of the Philippines requires. As of this time, we are addressing this flaw to strictly implement the provisions of the said Act which the DTI is responsible for,\u201d Dimagiba said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also admit that we need to revisit the accreditation program of service and repair shops\u2026 and evaluate their competency in providing the required services on products to consumers,\u201d he further said as quoted in the same report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Advocates of clean air on Tuesday filed a complaint against the Department of Trade and Industry\u00a0for the worsening &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":52997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-52874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}