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Human rights lawyer Kristina Conti, counsel of the families of drug war victims, said ICC’s decisions are hard to predict because its actions are highly compartmentalized. What is…

The Journalists Against Corruption (JAC) network was launched on Wednesday, March 20, at The Bayleaf Intramuros. It aims to become a platform for national and regional…

The PCIJ traced how prices were set in the market during the rice shortage season in 2023. We found that farmgate prices increased by at least 80% to as high as 190% from farmgate…

Delays in the rate review process mean the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines will continue to charge transmission rates that critics have described as ‘excessive.’

Energy industry regulators are urging utilities, especially monopolies like the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines, to charge only reasonable expenses to consumer…

In 2009, the ERC introduced a regulatory methodology and a process to reset rates for power distribution utilities and the NGCP that follows a “performance-based regulation” (PBR)…

The fourth regulatory period review was delayed for almost a decade. The timeline shows the events that led to the petition questioning the rate review proceedings before the…

We have an update on the tax deficiencies of Villar companies in Las Piñas City, analyses of key issues during the first year of the Marcos administration, and more.

Talks at the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP 28 in Dubai may influence the government’s energy plan, which is expected to be released before the end of the…

As of Dec. 5, 2023, only 798 of the 4,000 enterprises covered by the law have registered their EPR program – which states the mode of recovery and volume of waste to be recovered…

The draft PEP, as shown in a 2023 Climate Analytics report, presented two energy scenarios: a reference scenario and a clean energy scenario. The reference scenario assumes current…

Comelec announced Smartmatic’s disqualification from ‘all procurement’ after bagging contracts worth at least P25 billion in the country’s last five elections, according to data…

Infrawatch Philippines convenor Terry Ridon writes: "Since its inception in 2009, the NGCP has amassed P286 billion in earnings, allocating a substantial portion—P208 billion—as…

A court hearing was scheduled on Monday, November 13, but it was postponed. The court last heard the case two months ago.

We are publishing images from the PCIJ photo archives to remember one of the worst disasters to hit the Philippines. These decade-old photos were taken by then PCIJ multimedia…

Since January 2023, the Energy Regulatory Commission has held 14 hearings to determine how much the NGCP should charge customers. The result of the investigation could mean refunds…

His latest appointee, Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr., donated P30 million in cash to his political party Partido Federal ng Pilipinas.

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is preparing to file vote-buying charges against 46 candidates out of 168 reports it has received so far in the 2023 Barangay and Sangguniang…

Photojournalist Edwin Bacasmas goes around Metro Manila on the last day of campaign for the Barangay and SK Elections.

The two registered residents do not include the barangay chairman and seven councilors. The chairman, Adelino Fausto, is a resident of the neighboring town of Malabon.

Philippine security officials are wary of Chinese disinformation about the South China Sea dispute and of a few outspoken Filipinos echoing the regional superpower’s narratives…