Anti-mining group Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM) is urging the government to replace Republic Act 7942 or the Philippine Mining Act of 1995 with a law that is “pro-Filipino and pro-environment.

The group said the existing law has paved the way for plunder of the country’s mineral wealth, as well as mining-related environmental destruction.

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