Secretary Regina Lopez of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) should release results of her team’s audit report that prompted her to issue a closure order on at least 22 mining companies for supposed violations of the Mining Law, among other laws.

Rep. Ace Barbers of Surigao del Norte made the call over the weekend, saying a recent congressional probe of Lopez’s mining closure order revealed that the Mines and Geosciences Bureau, an attached agency of the DENR, is yet to be given a copy of the audit results.

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