SARIAYA, Quezon: The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) recently closed down several quarrying operations in this town for violating environmental laws.

“You can put a church inside the hole they made,” DENR Undersecretary Art Valdez told The Manila Times in an interview after the agency cancelled on Friday permits of several quarrying operations in this town.

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