Publication Items

Resiliency Checklist — Is Your Community Ready for the Next Big Flood? [1]

With flood-ravaged Midwestern states in the news, it’s time to ask whether your own community is ready for the “big one.” This week’s TipSheet offers a 10-point Resiliency Checklist to focus your reporting. Track the vulnerability of infrastructure like drinking water and sewage plants, roads, bridges and levees, the adequacy of flood insurance and much more.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [3]
Climate Change [4]
Disasters [5]
Journalism & Media [6]
People & Population [7]
Planning & Growth [8]
Transportation [9]
Waste [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
Region:
National (U.S.) [12]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [13]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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New Coal Ash Data Help Pinpoint Local Pollution Stories [15]

Hundreds of coal ash ponds and landfills around the United States pollute drinking water supplies, and now a newly released report helps localize the problem for environmental reporters. This week’s TipSheet explores the new data source, provides the back story on coal ash regulation (or lack thereof) and the potential health risks, while offering numerous questions to ask and resources to track down.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [16]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Health [20]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [7]
Pollution [22]
Waste [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
Region:
National (U.S.) [12]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Perfecting Your Panorama Technique [24]

In this how-to, veteran environmental photojournalist Dennis Dimick shares new techniques for capturing panoramas from the air — while on commercial plane flights — in order to illustrate human impacts on the landscape. Plus, Dimick details how and why he developed the new approach [25], in our latest EJ InSight column exploring the cutting edge of visual journalism on the environment.

SEJ Publication Types:
EJ InSight [26]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [3]
Air [27]
Forests [28]
Journalism & Media [6]
People & Population [7]
Planning & Growth [8]
Pollution [22]
Water & Oceans [11]
Region:
National (U.S.) [12]
International [29]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Capturing a Planet on the Fly [25]

Capturing panoramas from the air has become a passion for veteran environmental photojournalist Dennis Dimick. In the latest EJ InSight, our new column exploring the cutting edge of visual journalism on the environment, Dimick describes how he visualizes the expanding human footprint of the emergent Anthropocene era — by shooting from commercial airplane flights. Plus, Dimick shares his techniques in a how-to sidebar [24].

SEJ Publication Types:
EJ InSight [26]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [3]
Air [27]
Fish & Fisheries [30]
Forests [28]
Journalism & Media [6]
People & Population [7]
Planning & Growth [8]
Pollution [22]
Water & Oceans [11]
Region:
National (U.S.) [12]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Green New Deal Proposes Sweeping Economic Transformation [31]

Our latest Issue Backgrounder looks at the potentially historic impact of the ambitious climate action agenda known as the Green New Deal — not just on this Congress or the next, or even on the race for the White House in 2020, but for the soul of the Democratic Party. An analysis of a public policy program in the making, the political maneuvering it’s engendering and its prospects to sow division or prompt a united front.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [32]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [33]
Climate Change [4]
Economy & Business [34]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Politics [19]
Government [35]
Health [20]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [7]
Policy [36]
Pollution [22]
Technology [37]
Transportation [9]
Region:
National (U.S.) [12]
International [29]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Is the Green New Deal for Real? [38]

The Green New Deal may be just a broad outline, even after the recent introduction of a resolution in Congress. But don’t think the lack of specificity means the Green New Deal won’t be news for the long term. This week’s TipSheet explains the reasons the Green New Deal may endure and why it matters, plus story ideas and resources for journalists covering climate, environmental politics and more.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [33]
Climate Change [4]
Economy & Business [34]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Politics [19]
Government [35]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [7]
Policy [36]
Region:
National (U.S.) [12]
International [29]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Award-Winner — ‘Trust Your Gut’ but Track the Data [39]

Small market environmental beat reporting can shine a light on serious issues that affect local residents, and Texas Observer’s Christopher Collins does that with a passion. That’s the word from judges for the Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual reporting awards, who recently honored Collins for his work, citing his mix of hard-hitting info and interesting characters. In the latest Inside Story, Collins shares how he gets his story ideas, overcomes challenges and focuses on how issues affect real individuals.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [40]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [3]
Air [27]
Chemicals [16]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Health [18]
Food [41]
Journalism & Media [6]
People & Population [7]
Pollution [22]
Region:
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [42]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Environment and Energy News Outlook for 2019 [43]

With 2019 in full swing, the SEJournal offers an analysis of the year ahead in environment and energy news, with an overview of our full special report, the “2019 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment [44].” Plus, don’t miss SEJ’s Jan. 25 event with top reporters [45] to help you keep track of the big stories on the beat. RSVP here [46] to attend in-person or online.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [47]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [33]
Air [27]
Chemicals [16]
Climate Change [4]
Disasters [5]
Economy & Business [34]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Government [35]
Health [20]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [48]
People & Population [7]
Policy [36]
Pollution [22]
Science [49]
Transportation [9]
Waste [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
Region:
National (U.S.) [12]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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The 2019 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment [44]

SEJournal looks ahead to key issues in the coming year with this "2019 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment" special report. Stay tuned as we continue to add elements to the report up through and beyond its formal launch Jan. 25 at an annual roundtable [45], organized by the Society of Environmental Journalists with the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [50]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [33]
Air [27]
Chemicals [16]
Climate Change [4]
Consumer [51]
Disasters [5]
Economy & Business [34]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Health [18]
Environmental Politics [19]
Environmental Studies [52]
Fish & Fisheries [30]
Forests [28]
Government [35]
Health [20]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [48]
People & Population [7]
Policy [36]
Pollution [22]
Science [49]
Technology [37]
Transportation [9]
Water & Oceans [11]
Wildlife [53]
Region:
National (U.S.) [12]
International [29]
Visibility:
Public [14]
- Read more about The 2019 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment [44]
Oversight on EPA FOIA Screening, Covering Pipeline Protests, Feedlot Air Emissions, Data on Illegal Fishing [54]

The new year will likely mean subpoenas on EPA’s FOIA response policies, as a Democrat takes the chair in the House Oversight Committee amid charges the agency is choking off politically sensitive record requests. And are new laws in a dozen states making coverage of pipeline protests a felony? That, plus air emission exemptions for animal feedlot operators and data on illegal fishing. All in the latest issue of the WatchDog.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [55]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [33]
Agriculture [3]
Air [27]
Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Politics [19]
Fish & Fisheries [30]
Government [35]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [7]
Pollution [22]
Water & Oceans [11]
Region:
National (U.S.) [12]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [56]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [13]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [57]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [58]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [59]
Northwest (OR WA) [60]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [42]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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