Air pollution puts human and environmental health at various risks, which is one of the main obstacles to sustainable development. It could come from emissions from vehicles, factories, power plants, and even smoking.
• The Clean Air Act aims to ensure a “balanced and healthful ecology” for all Filipinos, in tune with “the rhythm and harmony of nature,” emphasizing the “polluters must pay” principle.
• In this program, the DENR-EMB has established the Sampling Assessment Team to monitor the emissions coming from all the different industries’ Air Pollution Source Installations. The Clean Air Act aims to ensure a “balanced and healthful ecology” for all Filipinos, in tune with “the rhythm and harmony of nature,” emphasizing the “polluters must pay” principle. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources acts as the “lead agency” in the implementation of the law.
TRAFFIC PROBLEM. The increasing number of vehicles cannot be accommodated by Metro Manila’s roads and thoroughfares causing the traffic problem which also contributes to air pollution. • Incineration except for the “traditional small-scale method of community or neighborhood sanitation ‘siga,’ traditional, agricultural, cultural, health, and food preparation and crematoria.”
• “Manufacture, processing, and trade” of fuel or fuel additives without them having prior registration with the Department of Energy.Under the law, an owner or operator of a stationary source with an “actual exceedance of any pollution or air quality standards” will pay not more than P100,000 for each day of its violation until it has complied with the standards.
But the law also said that anyone, who has a violation about the national inspection and maintenance program “including technicians and facility compliance shall [be] penalized with a fine of not less than Thirty Thousand Pesos or cancellation of license of both the technician and the center, or both, as determined by the [Department of Trade and Industry].”
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