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#SEJ2022 Annual Conference, Houston, TX, March 30-April 3

Registration is open for SEJ's 31st Annual Conference in Houston, hosted by Rice University. The #SEJ2022 conference will focus on environmental health and justice, energy and climate change, and oceans and coasts. Check out the agenda and register soon for early-bird pricing (ends Jan 15) and to get your choice of our all-day Thursday tours.

SEJ's Environmental Events Calendar: Featured Event

Our Calendar lists professional meetings, press conferences, awards/fellowships/workshops deadlines and more. Jan 9, 2022 deadline: The Tiny News Collective, backed by News Catalyst, LION Publishers and Google News Initiative, is ready to welcome six new organizations — first-time founders that are underrepresented in the news landscape — with support ranging from mentors to business tools to access to capital.

Letter From DC: Remembering Tom Lovejoy

Society of Environmental Journalists' Executive Director Meaghan Parker pays tribute to the late Thomas Lovejoy (pictured, left), famed conservation biologist known as the "Godfather of Biodiversity."

Diverse Perspectives

SEJ offers news, events, opportunities and more from diverse viewpoints. See useful links such as webinars and upcoming awards/fellowships/funding deadlines.

SEJ Publication Highlights

Coaching ‘Creatives’ — Artist Offers Wisdom to Journalists

12/15/2021 – The struggle to juggle numerous pitches and simultaneous stories, or even to decide if a story will actually work, is a familiar one to most journalists, especially freelancers. So SEJournal’s Christine Woodside sought out advice on surviving this rough-and-tumble from Jessica Abel, author of “Growing Gills” and “Out on the Wire.” Tips, tricks and insights in the new Freelance Files.

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‘Wild Souls’ Explores Paradox of Managing Species To Save Them

12/15/2021 – What does wildness mean when humans interfere with the lives of wild animals in order to protect them? A new volume, “Wild Souls,” explores that dilemma, whether arising through captive breeding programs to reintroduce the California condor and the gray wolf, by allowing hybridization or through the use of gene-editing tools. A review from BookShelf contributor Jenny Weeks.

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Challenging Another Year of Oil Company Promises

12/15/2021 – When disinformation pollutes the debate over the environment and climate change, it’s on journalists to recognize industry PR spin and push back against misleading narratives and false narratives, argues the latest WatchDog Opinion column. A look at the industry “playbook” to delay government action, at deceptive language on energy and news media’s obligation to approach the endless pledges skeptically.

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— Joseph Pulitzer

EJToday: Headlines

"Colorado Residents Ponder the Road Ahead After Wildfires"

NYTimes, 01/03/2022
Ecologist Thomas Lovejoy, Who Urged Preserving Amazon Rainforest, Dies

Washington Post, 01/03/2022
"E.O. Wilson, a Pioneer of Evolutionary Biology, Dies at 92"

NYTimes, 01/03/2022
"Solar Power Projects See The Light on Former Appalachian Coal Land"

Thomson Reuters Fdn., 01/03/2022
"Powerful Methane Cloud Seen by Satellite Came From Georgia Pipe"

Bloomberg Environment, 01/03/2022
"Germany Shuts Down Half Of Its 6 Remaining Nuclear Plants"

AP, 01/03/2022
In Most Polluted SF Neighborhood, Polluters Operated Without Permits

Inside Climate News, 01/03/2022
"China Fires Up Giant Coal Power Plant In Face Of Calls For Cuts"

Reuters, 01/03/2022
"As Its Topsoil Washes Away, The Corn Belt Is Losing Yields — And Carbon"

Mongabay, 01/03/2022
"This Tree Has Stood Here For 500 Years. Will It Be Sold For $17,500?"

Washington Post, 01/03/2022

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