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Villar defends P23.13-B DENR budget: Sen. Cynthia A. Villar, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Environment, Natural Resources, and Climate Change, sponsors the proposed P23.13 billion 2023 budget of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and its attached agencies before the Senate plenary Wednesday, November 16, 2022. The Office of the Environment Secretary got the lion’s share of the total DENR budget for 2023 with P17.94 billion while P2.328 billion of the DENR budget went to the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB). The DENR 2023 budget pie was further divided into the following agencies: Mines and Geosciences Bureau (P1.25 billion), National Mapping and Resources Information Authority (P1.378 billion), National Water Resources Board (P142.72 million), and the Palawan Council For Sustainable Development (P87.87 million). “We are hopeful that this proposed budget, once approved, will be efficiently utilized toward the conservation, management, development, and the proper use of environment and natural resources, which constitute the primary responsibility of the DENR and to fulfill the constitutional duty of the State to protect and advance the rights of the people to a balance and helpful ecology,” Villar said. (Bibo Nueva España/Senate PRIB)