Course Outline on Natural Resources and Environmental Law

Atty. Roi Andrei S. Galang

First Semester, AY 2020 to 2021
Wednesdays, 5:30 - 7:30
Thursdays, 8:30 - 9:30

Introduction

1. Oposa v. Factoran, G.R. No. 101083, 30 July 1993

2. Metropolitan Manila Development Authority v. Concerned Residents of
Manila Bay, G.R. Nos. 171947–48, 18 December 2008
3. Resident Marine Mammals of the Protected Seascape Tañon Strait, et al. v.
Angelo Reyes, et al., G.R. No. 180771, 21 April 2015
4. Environmental Laws of the Philippines
5. Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999 (R.A. No. 8749)
6. Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 (R.A. No. 9003)
7. Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004 (R.A. No. 9275)
8. Presidential Decree No. 979, “Providing for the Revision of Presidential
Decree No. 600 Governing Marine Pollution”
9. Toxic Substances, Hazardous and Nuclear Waste Control Act of 1990 (R.A.
No. 6969)
10.Climate Change Act of 2009 (R.A. No. 9729)
11.Philippine Green Jobs Act of 2016 (RA 10771)
12.Code on Sanitation of the Philippines (Presidential Decree No. 856)
13.National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS) Act of 1992 (R.A. No.
7586) and Expanded National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of
2018 (R.A. No. 11038)
14.R.A. No. 10629
15.P.D. No. 1586, “Establishing an Environmental Impact Statement System
Including Other Environmental Management Related Measures and for
Other Purposes”
16.R.A. No. 3571, “An Act to Prohibit The Cutting, Destroying or Injuring of
Planted or Growing Trees, Flowering Plants and Shrubs or Plants of Scenic
 Value along Public Roads, in Plazas, Parks, School Premises or in any other
Public Ground”
17.National Caves and Cave Resources Management and Protection Act (R.A.
No. 9072)
18.Presidential Decree No. 2001, “Establishing a Program to Gradually
Withdraw the Use of Tetraethyl Lead in Gasoline and, as Substitute
Therefor, to use Ethanol”
19.Oil Pollution Compensation Act of 2007 (R.A. No. 9483)
20.Laws on Philippine Natural Resources
21.Water Code of the Philippines (P.D. No. 1067, Series of 1976)
22.Revised Forestry Code of the Philippines (P.D. 705, Series of 1975)
23.Batas Pambansa (B.P) Blg. 701
24.P.D. No. 1775
25.Executive Order 277 Series 1987
26.R.A. No. 7161
27.Chain Saw Act of 2002 (R.A. No. 9175)
28.Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998 (R.A. No. 8550), as amended by R.A. No.
10654
29.Philippine Mining Act of 1995 (R.A. No. 7942)
30.People’s Small-Scale Mining Act of 1991 (R.A. No. 7076)
31.Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act (R.A. No. 9147)
32.The Animal Welfare Act of 1998 (R.A. No. 8485)
33.Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (R.A. No. 8371)
34.Heirs of Tunged v. Sta. Lucia Realty, G.R. No. 231737, 6 March 2018
35.Rules of Procedure for Environmental Cases (A.M. No. 09-6-8-SC)
36. Osmeña v. Garganera, G.R. No. 231164, 20 March 20 2018