THE Municipality of San Juan in Batangas celebrated the first-ever Araw ng Pagkakaisa para sa Kalikasan.

Municipal Ordinance 002, series of 2024 proclaims that every October 22 will commemorate the event when nine out of 10 San Juan residents voted to protect their town from the construction of a pollutive copper smelter and fertilizer complex in a diocesan poll in the '70s.

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