Publication Items

Green Geeks Liberate Environmental Data [1]

Environmental journalists need environmental data, even as it’s being stripped from government sites by the Trump administration. That’s where a band of programmers organized into the Public Environmental Data Partners comes in. The latest Toolbox reports it’s rescuing wiped data and making it accessible to reporters. Learn who’s behind the project and get an overview of some of the datasets being restored.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [5]
Journalism & Media [6]
Science [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Environmentalists Will Be Seeing Trump Forces in Court — Often [10]

The judiciary is looking to become a major environmental battleground for journalists to watch in the coming months and years, as activists confront the Trump administration over its deregulatory campaign. The new Issue Backgrounder maps out the action, explaining how key laws foster citizen suits, while numerous nonprofits are staffed up to sue. Plus, some ways to track the action.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [12]
Air [13]
Biodiversity [14]
Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [15]
Consumer [16]
Environmental Justice [17]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [5]
Infrastructure [18]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [20]
Policy [21]
Pollution [22]
Waste [23]
Water & Oceans [24]
Wildlife [25]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Hazardous Risk Reporting Resource at Risk of Trump Blackout [26]

Hazardous sites around the United States are supposed to have disaster plans, which make for a localizable story environmental journalists can tell to help protect their communities. The problem, reports TipSheet, is that a key federal database of these plans may be shut down by the Trump administration. More on the Risk Management Program, efforts to protect the data and how reporters can use it.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [27]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Disasters [28]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [5]
Health [30]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Pollution [22]
Waste [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Desperately Seeking Data? OECD Has Loads [31]

If the possibility of a politically driven dearth of data for your climate and environment reporting has you on edge, the new Reporter’s Toolbox just may have something to soothe your nerves: A data source from beyond the grasp of the Trump administration and outside the boundaries of the United States. Take a quick tour of environmental data from the OECD.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [32]
Air [13]
Biodiversity [14]
Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [15]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Studies [34]
Fish & Fisheries [35]
Health [30]
Journalism & Media [6]
Natural Resources [20]
Pollution [22]
Transportation [36]
Waste [23]
Water & Oceans [24]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
International [37]
Europe [38]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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New Angle for Reporting on Oil and Gas Industry — Radioactive Waste [39]

Industry experts and government regulators have long known that radionuclides reside in oil and natural gas. Yet radioactive emissions and waste continue to threaten the lives of workers and community members across the country. Investigative journalist Justin Nobel on the opportunities and urgent need for reporters to drill into a story steeped in questions of accountability, health and justice.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [40]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [12]
Air [13]
Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [15]
Consumer [16]
Economy & Business [41]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Health [29]
Environmental Politics [4]
Environmental Studies [34]
Government [5]
Health [30]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [20]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [42]
People & Population [43]
Policy [21]
Pollution [22]
Science [7]
Technology [44]
Waste [23]
Water & Oceans [24]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [45]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [46]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [47]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [48]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [49]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [50]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [51]
International [37]
Canada [52]
South America [53]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Will Science Be Stifled at the EPA? [54]

Anti-science policies are being instituted by the Trump administration at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other federal offices, reports the latest Backgrounder. That makes it especially challenging to keep politics out of decision-making around everything from natural disasters to public health. An examination of scientific integrity under Trump 2.0 and what environmental journalists should watch for.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [15]
Disasters [28]
Environmental Justice [17]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [5]
Health [30]
Infrastructure [18]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Policy [21]
Pollution [22]
Science [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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‘They’re Back’ — Veteran Journalists on Braving the Specter of Trump’s Return [55]

How can environmental reporters best cover the upheavals of a second Trump administration? SEJournal commissioned a special analysis to draw on the experience of reporters who were there to chronicle the first. Contributing editor Jennifer Weeks spoke to more than half a dozen news veterans of Trump’s earlier environmental and energy policy initiatives, with insights and tips on how to handle what’s ahead.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [40]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [13]
Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [15]
Disasters [28]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Justice [17]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [5]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [20]
Policy [21]
Pollution [22]
Water & Oceans [24]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Open Door to Industry for Trump Environmental Agency Appointees [56]

It’s not just the heads of Trump administration environmental agencies who come from the industries they now are entrusted to regulate. The latest TipSheet explains that it’s also the political appointees below them — officials responsible for overseeing air, water, toxic chemicals, Superfund, forests and drilling — who are now likely examples of regulatory capture. A short list. Plus, more from our new Trump 2.0 EJWatch special section [57].

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [27]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [32]
Air [13]
Chemicals [3]
Climate Change [15]
Economy & Business [41]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Politics [4]
Forests [58]
Government [5]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [20]
Policy [21]
Pollution [22]
Waste [23]
Water & Oceans [24]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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The Forgotten Victims of Hidalgo [59]

Contaminated water sickened thousands of residents near Mexico City for 40 years — even as officials knew they were being poisoned. Then, an investigative news team turned its attention to the polluted region, and produced multiple video and text versions of an award-winning feature focused on the residents’ health, poverty and more. Read a revealing Q&A with investigative producer Carlos Carabaña in the new Inside Story.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [60]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Environmental Justice [17]
Government [5]
Health [30]
Journalism & Media [6]
People & Population [43]
Pollution [22]
Waste [23]
Water & Oceans [24]
Region:
International [37]
Mexico [61]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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EPA Science Integrity Threatened by House Republicans [62]

The closest thing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has to a press policy is actually its scientific integrity policy. But as WatchDog Opinion writer Joseph Davis writes in the latest EJ TransitionWatch, the EPA’s scientific integrity policy is under direct attack by a powerful congressman. What’s behind the attack? And could the EPA’s science be under assault next?

SEJ Publication Types:
EJ TransitionWatch [63]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Economy & Business [41]
Environmental Politics [4]
Environmental Studies [34]
Government [5]
Health [30]
Journalism & Media [6]
Policy [21]
Science [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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