THE Supreme Court ordered the Court of Appeals (CA) to tackle once more a petition filed by the Concerned Citizens of Sta. Cruz, Zambales for the issuance of a writ of kalikasan with temporary environmental protection order (TEPO) against all the mining operations in the province.

In a decision written by Associate Justice Henri Jean Paul Inting, the Supreme Court set aside the 2017 ruling of the CA which lifted its own (CA's) resolution on the continuing mandamus on the Writ of Kalikasan and the high court's provisional writ issued in 2016.

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