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Toxic Sunset

Toxic Sunset

On the Trail of Hazardous Waste from Subic and Clark

1993•28m
Documentary

In 1991 and 1992, the United States closed down two of their largest military bases in Asia. After almost 100 years, our American guests were gone. But we discovered that our guests forgot to clean up. Toxic Sunset probes the issue of toxic wastes in US Military bases in the Philippines.

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Philippine Center for Investigatve Journalism (PCIJ)

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EN

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