Dagupan City (23 April) -- THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has stopped issuing certifications of alienability of foreshore areas amid controversies involving occupancy of such prime public lands.

URDANETA CITY -- Unless the government buys from them, big rice mill owners in the province of Pangasinan warned that the food crisis in the country could worsen if they would be forced to shut down their operations because nobody would buy their produce.

Dagupan City (25 April) — Now we understand why environmental pollution problems cannot be addressed or acted upon expeditiously: Provincial offices of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) cannot act on their own.

STA. BARBARA, Pangasinan, April 21 (PNA) — The town of Sta. Barbara is not giving up a bit its bid to be the site of an international airport to be hopefully built either by the government or through private initiative.

So what is the Philippines doing to help prevent global warming and save the world? Two days before Earth Day, it was reported that the government wants to massacre 13,000 trees (that’s 13,000) in Camp John Hay in Baguio City, one of the few beautiful places left in the Philippines because of its forested areas.

DAGUPAN CITY -- The 19-day Bangus Festival 2008 promises to be the biggest Bangus Festival the city will ever have, and the grandest festival in Pangasinan for that matter, in terms of events and corporate sponsors.