Publication Items

Climate Money Meets the Super PACs [1]

Amid the frenzy of Election 2020 comes a quieter development: The emergence of Big Climate money. Green groups and climate-focused fundraisers are now starting to take their place as major players alongside Big Oil as campaign contributors. The latest Reporter’s Toolbox suggests databases and other resources to help track climate (and other election) money.

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Reporters Toolbox [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Climate Change [4]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [8]
Journalism & Media [9]
Policy [10]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
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Public [12]
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Time To Flip the Ocean Script — From Victim to Solution [13]

The narrative around the ocean should become a more hopeful one, argues former NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco. As evidence at the Society of Environmental Journalists’ recent virtual conference, Lubchenco cites a top-level international analysis that suggests the ocean can play a positive role in everything from reducing climate change to securing the future of food. Find out more.

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SEJ News [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Politics [7]
Environmental Studies [16]
Fish & Fisheries [17]
Food [18]
Government [8]
Health [19]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Natural Resources [21]
Policy [10]
Pollution [22]
Science [23]
Transportation [24]
Waste [25]
Water & Oceans [26]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
International [27]
Visibility:
Public [12]
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Could Dems Borrow GOP Playbook To Roll Back Trump Rules? [28]

If oddsmakers are right and the Dems sweep the White House and both houses of Congress next month, one significant outcome could be the rollback of prominent Trump administration deregulatory moves. The latest TipSheet explains how an arcane law might make such reversals possible, and then spotlights half-a-dozen potentially vulnerable Trump regulatory actions.

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TipSheet [29]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [30]
Chemicals [31]
Climate Change [4]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [8]
Journalism & Media [9]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Policy [10]
Pollution [22]
Science [23]
Wildlife [32]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
Visibility:
Public [12]
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Need Climate Questions? We’ve Got Climate Questions. [33]

Climate change may have made an unexpected appearance at the raucous 2020 presidential debate last night, but it's equally important to quiz state and local candidates on the topic too. The latest TipSheet offers environment and energy journalists a list of 10 key climate change questions to ask in reporting elections in your coverage area.

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TipSheet [29]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [8]
Journalism & Media [9]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Military [34]
Policy [10]
Science [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
International [27]
Visibility:
Public [12]
- Read more about Need Climate Questions? We’ve Got Climate Questions. [33]
‘The Power of Partnerships’ Helps Uncover America’s Energy Gamble [35]

It took teams of journalists to produce an award-winning series of reports digging into environment and climate health effects of massive oil and natural gas production in the Southwestern United States. Our latest Inside Story talks with Jamie Smith Hopkins of the Center for Public Integrity about the benefits of reporting a big story jointly and the project’s sometimes surprising findings.

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Inside Story [36]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [4]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Journalism & Media [9]
Natural Resources [21]
Policy [10]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [37]
International [27]
Visibility:
Public [12]
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Bringing Stories Home Under Lockdown, With Remote Video Interviews [38]

They’ve long been a staple of the news business. But now, with the pandemic continuing to keep journalists from their subjects, remote video interviews have become an essential tool. And even newbie video reporters can quickly learn the basics. Science video producer Eli Kintisch shares a quick eight-step remote video setup and some simple tricks of the trade, in this SEJournal how-to.

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Features [39]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Agriculture [40]
Air [30]
Biodiversity [41]
Chemicals [31]
Climate Change [4]
Consumer [42]
Disasters [43]
Economy & Business [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Health [15]
Environmental Politics [7]
Environmental Studies [16]
Fish & Fisheries [17]
Food [18]
Forests [44]
Government [8]
Health [19]
Journalism & Media [9]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Military [34]
Natural Resources [21]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [45]
Other or All [46]
People & Population [47]
Planning & Growth [48]
Policy [10]
Pollution [22]
Science [23]
Technology [49]
Transportation [24]
Waste [25]
Water & Oceans [26]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
Alaska and Hawaii [50]
California [51]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [52]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [53]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [54]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [55]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [56]
Northwest (OR WA) [57]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [58]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [37]
International [27]
Canada [59]
Mexico [60]
Africa [61]
Antarctica & Arctic [62]
Asia [63]
Australia & Oceania [64]
Central America & the Caribbean [65]
Europe [66]
Middle East [67]
South America [68]
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Public [12]
- Read more about Bringing Stories Home Under Lockdown, With Remote Video Interviews [38]
Post-COVID-19 City Design May Transform Built Environment [69]

In the aftermath of the pandemic, the so-called built environment is likely to get a thorough reexamination, whether it’s to reconsider commuting, shopping, recreation, eating out or taking in sporting events. Our latest Issue Backgrounder looks at the top ways coronavirus will force us to rethink our cities and how we live in and travel through them.

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Backgrounders [70]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [43]
Economy & Business [5]
Health [19]
People & Population [47]
Planning & Growth [48]
Transportation [24]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
International [27]
Europe [66]
Visibility:
Public [12]
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Altered Office Environments Will Likely Greet Workers Returning From Quarantine [71]

The indoor air in offices was already a potential health risk even before COVID-19. But now amid the pandemic coronavirus, not to mention other ever-present biological threats, indoor environmental hazards make it more likely than ever that offices will look and function differently in coming days. TipSheet takes a look and offers more than a dozen story ideas and resources.

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TipSheet [29]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [30]
Disasters [43]
Economy & Business [5]
Health [19]
Journalism & Media [9]
People & Population [47]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
International [27]
Visibility:
Public [12]
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“Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West” [72]

It’s a site of stunning natural beauty. It’s also the place with America’s worst income inequality. A new book details how Wyoming’s Teton County elite have, perhaps unwittingly, used their extreme wealth to remake the region through conservation easements and donations to environmental causes, but remain blind to the needs of the area’s poorer residents. The latest BookShelf review explains.

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BookShelf [73]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Economy & Business [5]
Environmental Politics [7]
Natural Resources [21]
People & Population [47]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
California [51]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [55]
Northwest (OR WA) [57]
Visibility:
Public [12]
- Read more about “Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West” [72]
NEPA Rollback, EPA Science Rules Threaten Transparency; Plus, Pandemic Press Restrictions? [74]

A long-standing law designed to protect public information about environmental impacts is facing an unfavorable overhaul, while a proposal dictating how EPA uses scientific findings in its rulings is nearing finalization. WatchDog has those items, plus how states are using the COVID-19 pandemic to restrict press and more.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog [75]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Climate Change [4]
Disasters [43]
Economy & Business [5]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [8]
Journalism & Media [9]
Laws & Regulations [20]
Policy [10]
Science [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
Visibility:
Public [12]
- Read more about NEPA Rollback, EPA Science Rules Threaten Transparency; Plus, Pandemic Press Restrictions? [74]

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