Philippines: 15 Years Of Poverty, Disasters Under Mining Act Of 1995 Too Much, Green Group Says

Philippines: 15 Years Of Poverty, Disasters Under Mining Act Of 1995 Too Much, Green Group Says   People's Mining Bill filed in Congress   Progressive lawmakers from the House of Representatives filed today a landmark bill seeking to scrap the country's current law on mining and replace it with a pro-people, pro-environment, and pro-development Philippine mining law.   Filed earlier this afternoon, House Bill 4315, or the People's Mining Act of 2011, seeks to reorient the Philippine mining...

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