Publication Items

Rapid Response Grant Yields Oil Patch Stories, Book Chapter [1]

Mid-pandemic, freelancer Erika Bolstad struck out from Oregon for the boom-bust Bakken oil fields of North Dakota, with cash from a grant, two story assignments and years of book research. She shares her experience on the road, dealing with COVID risks, tricky timing and a stubborn bureaucracy, as well as a generous well-plugger and supportive editors. Read the new FEJ StoryLog.

SEJ Publication Types:
FEJ StoryLog [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Natural Resources [5]
Policy [6]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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EV Charging Stations — Are They There Yet? [10]

For all the talk about the energy transition and the robust growth in electric vehicle sales, there’s one big reason for unease: getting charged. The new Backgrounder takes a deep dive on the state of EV charging stations in the United States, exploring Tesla’s diminishing dominance, coming charger standardization, charging levels, software and for-pay realities, plus the effects of government policy.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [12]
Consumer [13]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [15]
Planning & Growth [16]
Policy [6]
Technology [17]
Transportation [18]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Spurt in Hydro Relicensing To Leave U.S. Awash in Environmental Stories [19]

Hundreds of hydropower dams in the United States will see their licenses expiring in the next decade, generating years-long federal relicensing processes. That prospect calls for close local and regional coverage of the complicated balance between renewable energy needs with negative environmental impacts. The latest TipSheet explains the licensing process and the dam backstory, along with a dozen story ideas and reporting resources.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [20]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [21]
Climate Change [12]
Consumer [13]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Politics [14]
Fish & Fisheries [23]
Infrastructure [15]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Natural Resources [5]
Policy [6]
Water & Oceans [25]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
California [26]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [27]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [28]
Northwest (OR WA) [29]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Climate Crisis Makes for Real Fashion Emergency [30]

Fast fashion’s lack of sustainability has long been the subject of news media coverage. But now the realities of climate change mean that fashion reporting must be reimagined to include the lived environmental and human rights realities of workers making what we wear, writes contributor Yessenia Funes in the new Voices of Environmental Justice column. Ideas and resources for getting past simplistic fashion industry narratives.

SEJ Publication Types:
Voices of Environmental Justice [31]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [21]
Agriculture [32]
Climate Change [12]
Consumer [13]
Economy & Business [33]
Environmental Justice [34]
Health [35]
Journalism & Media [4]
People & Population [36]
Policy [6]
Waste [37]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
International [38]
Asia [39]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Will Zombie Ag-Gag Laws Ever Really Die? [40]

Laws that make undercover journalistic investigations of animal agriculture operations illegal violate the First Amendment, right? Not so clear, laments WatchDog Opinion, which points out that while the Supreme Court appeared to have struck down such laws just last year, it may now revisit the issue. Why it should matter not just to environmental reporters but to all journalists.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog [41]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [21]
Agriculture [32]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Policy [6]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [8]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [42]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [43]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Philly Steaks Out New Ground [44]

It just wouldn’t be the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference recap without the waggish tales of SEJ’s resident wit, David Helvarg, who once again this year skewers the lot of us, sparing not a jot of our five days in Philadelphia. Read on and prepare to snicker.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [45]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [32]
Climate Change [12]
Disasters [46]
Economy & Business [33]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [14]
Food [47]
Government [48]
Health [35]
Infrastructure [15]
Journalism & Media [4]
Natural Resources [5]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [49]
Policy [6]
Pollution [50]
Technology [17]
Transportation [18]
Waste [37]
Water & Oceans [25]
Wildlife [51]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [52]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Courage and Caring — Documentary Celebrates Environmental Icon Stewart Udall [53]

While the name of Stewart Udall, U.S. interior secretary through the tumultuous 1960s, may have faded from public memory, his influence on environmental policies is still felt today. Contributor Francesca Lyman shines the spotlight on a new documentary about Udall and his legacy, and talks with director John de Graaf about Udall’s insights and inspiration.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [54]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [55]
Biodiversity [56]
Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [34]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [57]
Forests [58]
Government [48]
Infrastructure [15]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Natural Resources [5]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [49]
Policy [6]
Pollution [50]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [59]
Transportation [18]
Water & Oceans [25]
Wildlife [51]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
California [26]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [60]
Northwest (OR WA) [29]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [43]
International [38]
Central America & the Caribbean [61]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Solar Power, the Community Way [62]

The energy transition imperative to move from fossil fuels toward renewable energies could leave out individual homeowners unable to install rooftop solar. But as the latest TipSheet points out, there’s an alternative: community solar. Good local reporting is needed to demystify it though. The backstory, plus more than a dozen story ideas and reporting resources.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [20]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [12]
Consumer [13]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [15]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Policy [6]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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LNG To Fuel Conflict, Profit, Warming in Coming Years [63]

A partisan debate has flared over liquified natural gas, as industry, environmentalists and politicians wrangle over LNG’s role in climate change and the energy transition, heating and electricity prices, and international and domestic U.S. politics. Backgrounder lays out LNG’s history, starting with the fracking boom and bringing it up to speed with the war in Ukraine and upcoming presidential elections.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [21]
Chemicals [64]
Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [48]
Laws & Regulations [24]
Natural Resources [5]
Policy [6]
Pollution [50]
Technology [17]
Transportation [18]
Water & Oceans [25]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Alaska and Hawaii [65]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [52]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [42]
International [38]
Canada [66]
Mexico [67]
Asia [39]
Europe [68]
Middle East [69]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Award-Winning Beat Reporting Highlights Legacy of Environmental Racism [70]

Top-flight regional reporting (and data analysis) that explored inequities between Black and white communities around Baltimore, Maryland, yielded journalist Scott Dance a wide range of stories — and a first-place prize in the most recent awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists. Dance, now on the climate desk for The Washington Post shares insights from the beat in the new Inside Story.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [71]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [32]
Climate Change [12]
Environmental Justice [34]
Fish & Fisheries [23]
Health [35]
Journalism & Media [4]
People & Population [36]
Planning & Growth [16]
Policy [6]
Pollution [50]
Water & Oceans [25]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [52]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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