Energy Transition
Why green energy can’t gain ground in the Philippines
The piecemeal and problematic implementation of the Renewable Energy Law is blocking clean and cheap energy for millions of Filipinos.
By Elyssa Lopez·March 21, 2023
Energy Transition
Developers ready to build more solar farms — they just can’t connect them to the grid
The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines, a monopoly in the transmission industry, is a bottleneck in the growth of green energy.
By Elyssa Lopez·March 21, 2023
Energy Transition
Liquefied natural gas: a dirty, costly detour
The Philippines detours from the renewable energy path to dirty, expensive and imported fossil gas.
By Cherry Salazar·March 11, 2023
Energy Transition
The last fishermen of Ilijan
Gas projects destroy way of life in Batangas fishing communities.
By Cherry Salazar·March 9, 2023
Energy Transition
The power players: Who owns new LNG projects in PH?
Liquefied natural gas may be a new industry in the local energy sector, but old names are behind the companies bringing the technology to Philippine shores.
By Elyssa Lopez·March 7, 2023
Energy Transition
Verde Island Passage in danger as LNG projects flock to Batangas
The ‘solution’ to the looming energy crisis breeds irreversible damage to the ‘Amazon’ of the oceans.
By Cherry Salazar·March 7, 2023
Environment
Health, environment concerns are raised as Philippine cement plants burn plastic wastes for fuel
The DENR has pushed cement plants to burn plastic municipal wastes as alternative fuel to help address the country’s solid waste problem. But critics are raising health concerns…
By Elyssa Lopez·August 11, 2022
Environment
Are PH consumer goods companies doing enough to tackle plastic waste?
Plastic waste remains a huge problem amid the pandemic, but makers of fast-moving consumer goods remain stuck in waste retrieval and co-processing measures that barely make an…
By Elyssa Lopez·November 1, 2021
Data
Data: Sources of Plastic Waste
READ: Are PH consumer goods companies doing enough to tackle plastic waste? In 2015, the Philippines was named as one of the top producers of marine waste in the report titled…
By Philippine Center For Investigative Journalism Pcij·October 28, 2021
Environment
44M kilos of fertilizer from South Korea shipped to Philippine landfill
It was intended as an ‘alternative daily cover’ for the sanitary landfill of Carrascal town in Surigao del Sur, but a local environment officer points out there is no study that it…
By Carmela Fonbuena·July 29, 2021