Publication Items

Tracking the Trackers in the Trump 2.0 Onslaught [1]

Keeping up with the Trump administration is tricky, given the speed and volume with which the action is unfolding. But the new Reporter’s Toolbox has a handy list of more than a dozen Trump trackers, watching everything from campaign promises and executive orders to litigation launched against the administration. There’s even a tracker watching his time spent on the golf links.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [5]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Policy [8]
Science [9]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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Environmental Policies Upended, Climate Plans a Casualty As Trump Takes Power [12]

In the overview summary for our “2025 Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy” special report, we foresee the very real prospect that environmental protection and energy policies in place, in some cases, for decades could swiftly be swept aside by the Trump administration and a GOP-controlled Congress. Read our analysis [12], plus look back at more than three dozen stories gathered together in our ninth annual guide [13].

SEJ Publication Types:
Special Reports [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Justice [16]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [5]
Health [17]
Infrastructure [18]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Policy [8]
Pollution [19]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
International [20]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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Open Door to Industry for Trump Environmental Agency Appointees [21]

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 [22].

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [23]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [24]
Air [25]
Chemicals [26]
Climate Change [3]
Economy & Business [27]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Politics [4]
Forests [28]
Government [5]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Natural Resources [29]
Policy [8]
Pollution [19]
Waste [30]
Water & Oceans [31]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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From Oil Boom to Lithium Rush — Reporting the Realities [32]

A coming lithium rush in Arkansas drew the notice of journalist Katie Myers, who used a grant from the Fund for Environmental Journalism to explore whether extraction activities near once-booming energy communities could avoid the economic and environmental impacts of another boom-and-bust cycle for a largely Black region with histories of land dispossession, plantation slavery and Jim Crow segregation. Lessons learned in the latest FEJ StoryLog.

SEJ Publication Types:
FEJ StoryLog [33]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [27]
Environmental Justice [16]
Environmental Politics [4]
Journalism & Media [6]
Natural Resources [29]
People & Population [34]
Technology [35]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [36]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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Climate Risk Data Helps Decisions, Stories About Looming Disaster [37]

Environmental journalists aiming to report local or regional stories on real estate climate risk should explore an impressive bit of data journalism on the subject; Reporter’s Toolbox lauds it not just for the exemplary work, but also because the project, from The Washington Post, allows them to look up a variety of risks in their own locales.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [38]
Journalism & Media [6]
Planning & Growth [39]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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Onward Together — Supporting You, Your Work in a Changing World [40]

SEJ’s Interim President Bobby Magill shares his thoughts on the challenges that lie ahead for journalists.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ Presidents Report [41]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [6]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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AI’s Importance in Journalism and Teaching — Part 2 [42]

In Part 2 of a two-part EJ Academy, SEJournal’s Emilia Askari examines changes artificial intelligence is bringing to journalism — among them possibilities for the analysis of data, including on climate and the environment. Plus, ways to use AI tools more effectively and how to track news organizations’ response to and use of AI. Also: Part 1, AI in the classroom [43].

SEJ Publication Types:
EJ Academy [44]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Environmental Studies [45]
Journalism & Media [6]
Science [9]
Technology [35]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
International [20]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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Press Freedom Issues Come to Fore As Trump 2.0 Launches [46]

Salvaging disappearing web pages from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, fostering (and protecting) government whistleblower sources and sussing out the First Amendment’s prospects under the new attorney general at the Justice Department — the latest WatchDog Opinion scans the Trump administration’s information terrain. Plus, check out the latest actions from the Society of Environmental Journalists’ freedom of information efforts [47].

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog [48]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Justice [16]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [5]
Journalism & Media [6]
Policy [8]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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The Bounty of the Gift Economy [49]

Bestselling Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer, in her new book, exalts a simple berry that helps sustain the life around it, and in doing so exemplifies the economic power of giving. “The Serviceberry” explores the traditions of the gift economy and its potential to be nurtured alongside the market economy. The latest BookShelf from contributor Jenny Weeks.

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [50]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [24]
Consumer [51]
Economy & Business [27]
Food [52]
People & Population [34]
Policy [8]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
International [20]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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Communities at Risk Are Climate Stories Too [53]

As environmental journalists scramble to cover dizzying changes in climate and energy policy under the new administration, columnist Yessenia Funes offers an admonition: Do not forget about those whose human rights are being targeted by Trump, and look to connect the changing planet with changes felt by threatened communities. The new Voices of Environmental Justice on exiting the echo chamber.

SEJ Publication Types:
Voices of Environmental Justice [54]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [55]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [38]
Environmental Justice [16]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [5]
Health [17]
Journalism & Media [6]
People & Population [34]
Policy [8]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
International [20]
Visibility:
Public [11]
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