THE Court of Appeals (CA) has junked a petition filed by a group of residents in Obando, Bulacan against the establishment of an engineered modern sanitary landfill in the town.

In a 90-page decision penned by Associate Justice Priscilla Baltazar-Padilla and concurred in by Associate Justices Jose Reyes, Jr. and Agnes Reyes Carpio, the CA’s former 10th Division dismissed the petition for the issuance of a Writ of Kalikasan with prayer for the issuance of Temporary Environmental Protection Order (TEPO) under the Rules of Procedure of Environmental Cases filed by the Concerned Citizens of Obando led by one Maria Theresa Bondoc.

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