In his 2nd State of the Union Address Tuesday last week, US President Joe Biden told members of Congress that the climate crisis is a “reality” and encompassing, it has no colors nor boundaries.
As he pointed out: “Climate change is literally an existential threat to our nation and to the world.”
Last December, the House of Representatives approved on final reading a bill seeking to amend Republic Act 10845, or the Anti-Agricultural Smuggling Act of 2016, to include large-scale
agricultural smuggling of tobacco and other tobacco products as a crime of economic sabotage.