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Inland Flooding — Reporting Resources From SEJ Publications

With the death toll exceeding 100 from catastrophic flooding in Texas, the SEJ Publications team offers resources for flood reporting in your region. See TipSheets on inland flood risks, extreme rainfall, flood readiness, flood-resistant construction, building in flood plains and flood-related hazardous waste threats. Also, a Reporter’s Toolbox on mapping flood risk, a Feature on the inequities of flooding and a special report, Covering Your Climate: The South. Plus, get rain and flood headlines from EJToday.

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#SEJSpotlight on Members

Meet SEJ member Alix Underwood! Alix is the managing editor for the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy. She contributes articles regularly to the Steady State Herald, CASSE’s weekly blog with journalistic depth. Alix’s work covers a spectrum of timely topics related to limits to growth, with emphasis on international equity and justice and the trophic theory of money. Want SEJ to promote your work to our social media followers? Here's how.

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SEJ Speaks on FOI Issues

See the latest actions taken by SEJ advocating access to environmental information, press freedom and supporting the media's right to know on behalf of the public, including urging the Uniform Law Commission "to pause efforts to draft model anti-doxing legislation, warning that such laws risk becoming tools to punish legitimate journalism and public advocacy" on July 7, 2025.

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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. July 11 deadline: The year-long Ilíiaitchik — Indigenous Correspondents Program is for Indigenous college or university students (regardless of area of study/academic background) who are passionate about environmental communication and storytelling. Participants receive one-on-one mentoring, a $1,000 stipend and more.

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SEJ Publication Highlights

Solutions — and Death — in the Rainforest
07/09/2025 – A project begun to explore ways to protect the Amazon seemed to end with the murder of the journalist who conceived it, along with his guide and research partner. But others picked up the mantle and completed a volume exploring ways to save this precious and rapidly disappearing ecosystem. BookShelf reviewer Elyse Hauser on how this unusual book tries to meet that promise.
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Wildfire Smoke Is Showing Up Everywhere. It Can Be Fatal
07/09/2025 – Wildfire’s immensely destructive power is not just about what it burns. The smoke from more frequent fires, too, has real potential to harm human health, the new Backgrounder explains, releasing particulate matter, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides and worse. Learn more about the hazards and historical perspective, along with what journalists should tell their communities can be done.
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Recreation in Polluted Water Can Be Threat to Human Health
07/09/2025 – A cool swim on a hot day is one of the quintessential pleasures of summer. That is, unless polluted water makes it — and any other aquatic contact — a high-risk activity. It’s an important environmental and public health story for journalists to tell. TipSheet helps review waterborne illnesses to watch for, regulations supposed to protect against them and local story ideas to pursue.
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"Specificity is central to both my writing and my reporting. Focusing on details somehow lashes me to the story as if it were a mast. I find that as long as I stay focused on detail, detail, detail while I am reporting, I advance the story."

— Alma Guillermoprieto

 

 


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WHY Join SEJ?

SEJ's mission is to strengthen coverage of environment, energy, health and climate news, by supporting the journalists who report that news. The benefits of joining include: access to grants for environmental reporting; mentoring by experienced journalists; and members-only e-mailing lists for sharing professional tips, news, and information. SEJ members meet and learn face-to-face from fellow members, other media professionals and topic experts, at our annual conference and volunteer-organized regional gatherings.

 

 

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