Official Website of Sonny Trillanes: Environment

FULL LIST OF ENVIRONMENT BILLS

SBN 3580 – An Act providing for sustainable forest management (co-author)
SBN 3422 – An Act providing for a Comprehensive Hazardous and Radioactive Wastes Management, providing penalties for violations thereof, and for other purposes
SBN 3403 – An Act establishing the Academic Excellence Foundation to promote academic excellence in public and private schools and for other purposes
SBN 3391 – An Act prohibiting the use of cyanide and other toxic chemicals by mining firms for gold and other mineral ore processing in open-pit mining operations
SBN 3341 – An Act prescribing every second Sunday of September as a National Coastal Clean-up Day in the country
SBN 3340 – An Act prohibiting the importation of stalactites and stalagmites, amending for this purpose Republic Act Numbered 9072, otherwise known as the “National Cave Resources Management and Protection Act”
SBN 3174 – An Act mandating licensed quarrying contractors to erect fences around quarrying sites and for other purposes
SBN 3165 – An Act mandating licensed sand and granite quarrying contractors to practice proper disposal of waste matter in quarrying sites and for other purposes
SBN 3112 – An Act mandating licensed quarrying contractors to practice safety measures in quarrying sites by requiring for the restoration or remaking of banks of water to the same condition as they were before quarrying, prescribing penalties thereof, and for other purposes
SBN 3107 – An Act to provide the revival of Arbor Day by vesting in provincial, city and municipal government with their component barangays the responsibilities for celebrating the day for tree-planting as an annual event
SBN 3042 – An Act prohibiting acts of vandalism, imposing penalties for violations thereof, and for other purposes
SBN 3038 – An Act institutionalizing private land forestry to enhance reforestation and environmental protection and providing incentives thereof, and for other purposes
SBN 3028 – An Act addressing certain discharges incidental to the normal operation of a recreational vessel, providing funds therefor and for other purposes
SBN 3010 – An Act providing for the sustainable management of forest resources and for other purposes
SBN 3009 – An Act promoting and permitting the use of waste-to-energy technology, amending for this purpose Republic Act Numbered 8749, otherwise known as the Clean Air Act of 1999
SBN 2967 – An Act regulating the practice of Mining Engineering in the Philippines, repealing for the purpose Republic Act Numbered four thousand two hundred seventy four (RA 4274), as amended, entitled “Mining Engineering Law of the Philippines”
PS Resolution No. 625 – Resolution directing the Senate Committee on Accountability of Public Officers and Investigations, and other appropriate committees to inquire, look into and investigate in aid of legislation, the authority given by the President of the Republic to Secretary Peter Favila to enter into a Memorandum of Agreement with the ZTE International Investment Limited in the development and implementation of various investment activities in the Philippines which include among others the exploration, development and operation of mining areas in Diwalwal which constitute a clear violation of Section 2, Art. XII of the Constitution, and Republic Act No. 7942, otherwise known as ‘The Philippine Mining Act of 1995’ with the end in view of preventing such unwarranted acts from being repeated in the future
PS Resolution No. 170 – A resolution directing the Committee on Justice to conduct an investigation, in aid of legislation, into the brutal slaying of environmentalist Councilor Armin Marin of San Fernando, Romblon, as well as the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources to inquire into the issuance by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, under Former Secretary Angelo Reyes, of all logging permits in the Island of Sibuyan, with the end in view of causing the cancellation of these permits.
SBN 2668 – An Act providing for the collection, transportation and recycling of electronic waste and cellular phones
SBN 2630 – An Act protecting the environment by providing for a phase-out system of polycarbon plastics, styrofoam, foil paper and other synthetic materials harmful to the environment, prescribing penalties therefor, and by promoting and establishing a set of criteria endorsing the use of environment-friendly packaging materials, and for other purposes