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Bill Moyers, Friend of SEJ, Dead at 91

Bill Moyers, a great American who proudly called himself an environmental journalist, died June 26, 2025. He was one of SEJ’s “angels,” helping the organization to survive difficult times — first by inspiring us and second by engineering a major sustaining grant from the Schumann Foundation. Moyers also delivered the Keynote at SEJ's 2005 annual conference in Austin, Texas.

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Lead Pipe Data Map Offers Sharp New Tool

Lead-contaminated drinking water has long been a widespread worry, but one big challenge has been locating the many lead service lines around the United States. The latest Reporter’s Toolbox points you to a mappable database to help address that problem, with current, detailed data filtered through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Learn more about this resource and how to best use it.

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#SEJSpotlight on Members

Meet SEJ member Jackie Flynn Mogensen! Jackie is a reporter for Mother Jones, covering climate, the environment and the politics of science. In her health and science coverage, Jackie has written investigative features on endangered species conservation, the trade of research primates and workplace issues in academia. Want SEJ to promote your work to our social media followers? Here's how.

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SEJ's Environmental Events Calendar: Featured Event

Our Calendar lists professional meetings, webinars, press conferences, awards/fellowships/workshops deadlines and more. June 30 deadline: CASW's Evert Clark / Seth Payne Award for a Young Science Journalist recognizes excellent reporting and writing in any field of science by science writers age 30 or younger. Winner receives $1,000 and a trip to the ScienceWriters2025 conference in Chicago.

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SEJ Publication Highlights

Rethinking Forest Management in the Pyrocene

06/25/2025 – Recent urban-interface infernos, fueled by climate change, leave no doubt that we have entered the age of runaway fire. Writer and ecologist Lauren Oakes writes that large-scale combustion is permanently reshaping ecosystems and societies as we learn to live with wildfire, not just fight it. Instead of perpetuating problematic approaches to forest management, experts call for confronting the root causes of this crisis and adopting science-informed responses.
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Tainted Water, Tainted Power — Inside a Hog-Farm Empire

06/18/2025 – A powerful politician and his family’s groundwater-polluting agricultural business were the focus of an award-winning series that delved into the intersection of politics, power, privilege and regulatory capture. In the latest Inside Story Q&A, journalist Yanqi Xu discusses how the reporting uncovered deep and unexpected impacts on small town economies, water quality and the living conditions of the hog farms’ neighbors.
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Public Broadcasting Cuts Would Harm Free Press

06/18/2025 – Trump administration efforts to defund public media, now before Congress, are a misguided effort to harm a source of journalism that is highly trusted by audiences, argues the latest WatchDog Opinion column. And while public broadcasting’s diverse funding sources may insulate it from politics to some degree, the attacks do threaten to chill press freedom, including environmental reporting, more broadly. The latest Dog explains.
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  • "Surprise Tax in G.O.P. Bill Could Cripple Wind and Solar Power"
    NYTimes, 06/30/2025
  • "A Public Lands Sell-Off Is Struck From the G.O.P. Policy Bill"
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  • Ontario Allowed Toxic Air Near First Nation For Years Despite Health Risks
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  • "A Logging Protest In The Treetops Ends In Terror, Activists Say"
    Washington Post, 06/30/2025
  • Enviros Sue To Stop Opening Of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ In Everglades
    Washington Post, 06/30/2025
  • "Nancy Mace Privately Asks Trump Aides To Unfreeze Mercedes EV Funds"
    Washington Post, 06/30/2025
  • "How Chris Wright Is Remaking The National Labs"
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  • "The Oil And Gas Industry Has A Water Problem. EPA Wants To Help."
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  • "Streams Were Dying in West Virginia. Here’s How They’re Coming Back."
    NYTimes, 06/30/2025
  • "How Park Visitors Responded When Asked To Report Anti-American Signs"
    Washington Post, 06/30/2025
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