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ILLEGAL DUMPING: Senator Chiz Escudero (right), chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, together with Senators Loren Legarda (left) and JV Ejercito (center) ask Customs and Foreign Affairs officials to explain the dumping of 26 container vans of waste materials from Canada in Capas, Tarlac, last July. Ejercito said that the government should give utmost consideration to this issue in order to protect the Philippines from becoming a dumping ground of hazardous wastes. (PRIB Photo by Albert Calvelo/09 September 2015)