Clean Air Act
August 27th, 2004 at 1:48 pm (Environment)
These past few weeks, we’ve been reading about the air quality in Metro Manila. There has been much uproar over DENR’s claim that the air quality in the Metro is within the limits set in the Clean Air Act. The air quality monitors they set up around Metro Manila has been reading lower levels of air pollutants around the Metro. However, the residents have not experienced this. Nonetheless, it is indeed good news (if it’s true) that the pollutants levels have lowered. It appears that the Clean Air Act has been implemented sufficiently… within the Metro.
But it begs the question: how is the rest of the Philippines’ air quality doing??? Are there air quality monitors outside of Metro Manila? What changes have happened to the rest of Luzon, Visayas and MIndanao? Or is the Clean Air Act and its implementation taking effect in Metro Manila only? Needless to say, Metro Manila can be used as a benchmark, being the most polluted area in the country. However, it would only be fair to monitor the air quality elsewhere. Otherwise, the government, specifically the DENR, could be considered amiss in their duties.
Although I am quite confident that most of the rest of the country is within the set limits of the Clean Air Act, I would be more confident if there are actual evidence (read: scientific) that would prove it. Once again, the government has forgotten that there exists a Philippines beyond Metro Manila.
Proper and sufficient implementation of the Clean Air Act would mean the lowering of air pollution levels not only within Metro Manila but the rest of the Philippines as well.
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