Papua New Guinea’s government has...[amended] environmental laws...that will make it harder to prosecute mining projects that damage the environment...Tiffany Nonggorr, a lawyer representing close to 1,000 landowners...said the changes meant landowners had lost the right to sue for negligence...Nonggorr says China Metallurgical lobbied hard for the government to amend the environmental laws, which could now be applied to every other resources project in the country...Bertha Somare, a government media advisor and daughter of Sir Michael Somare, the PNG prime minister, says landowners’ rights have not been removed because they can still raise their objections with the authorities...