Publication Items

Crisis Threatens the Country’s Most Vulnerable Region [1]

As global warming worsens, effects like extreme heat, drought, wildfires, coastal flooding and inland flooding will have an outsized impact in the Southern United States. The latest entry in our ongoing “Covering Your Climate: The South [2]” special report looks at those effects. Plus, read an introductory overview and watch for additional entries on climate mitigation and adaptation in the South.

SEJ Publication Types:
Special Reports [3]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [4]
Air [5]
Climate Change [6]
Consumer [7]
Disasters [8]
Economy & Business [9]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Health [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
Natural Resources [15]
People & Population [16]
Planning & Growth [17]
Policy [18]
Pollution [19]
Water & Oceans [20]
Region:
National (U.S.) [21]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [22]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [24]
Visibility:
Public [25]
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Why the South Lags on Staving Off Crisis [26]

Most Southern state leaders are doing the least to fight the climate crisis, despite having the most to lose environmentally and economically. When will that begin to change? The latest entry in our “Covering Your Climate: The South [2]” special report looks at the politics of the climate crisis, the dominance of utilities, and the transportation and forestry sectors, along with the few climate breakthroughs.

SEJ Publication Types:
Special Reports [3]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [5]
Climate Change [6]
Consumer [7]
Economy & Business [9]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [27]
Health [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Natural Resources [15]
Planning & Growth [17]
Policy [18]
Pollution [19]
Transportation [29]
Region:
National (U.S.) [21]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [22]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [24]
Visibility:
Public [25]
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Is the South Confronting Its Climate Threats? [30]

The South is ground zero for the climate crisis in the United States, yet little is being done to prevent impacts or protect communities. Will the South tap its potential to be part of the solution? Our special report, “Covering Your Climate: The South,” helps reporters cover the region, starting with a backgrounder on climate concerns from Texas to Virginia.

SEJ Publication Types:
Special Reports [3]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [31]
Agriculture [4]
Air [5]
Biodiversity [32]
Climate Change [6]
Consumer [7]
Disasters [8]
Economy & Business [9]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [27]
Health [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Natural Resources [15]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [33]
People & Population [16]
Planning & Growth [17]
Policy [18]
Pollution [19]
Science [34]
Technology [35]
Transportation [29]
Water & Oceans [20]
Region:
National (U.S.) [21]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [22]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [24]
Visibility:
Public [25]
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Environmental Justice Stories Will Keep Proliferating in 2021 [36]

The surging racial justice movement has reenergized aspirations to correct the environmental injustices that blemish countless underprivileged U.S. communities. The new TipSheet, another part of our 2021 Guide [37], scans the landscape of trouble spots, from urban to rural, industrial zones to Superfund sites. Plus, story ideas and reporting resources.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [38]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [31]
Air [5]
Chemicals [39]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Government [27]
Health [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
People & Population [16]
Policy [18]
Pollution [19]
Waste [40]
Water & Oceans [20]
Region:
National (U.S.) [21]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [41]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [42]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [22]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [43]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [24]
International [44]
Mexico [45]
Visibility:
Public [25]
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Reporter, Wearing Two Hats, Journeys Into Filmmaking [46]

For Boston Globe environment reporter David Abel, a side project shooting video of the 2013 Boston Marathon sealed his passion for nonfiction filmmaking, one that has since yielded four high-profile nature documentaries. In EJ InSight, Abel traces that path and details how he balances his environment reporting and filmmaking. Plus, view images from Abel’s documentary work [47].

SEJ Publication Types:
EJ InSight [48]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [6]
Environmental Health [11]
Fish & Fisheries [49]
Journalism & Media [14]
Natural Resources [15]
Water & Oceans [20]
Region:
National (U.S.) [21]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [50]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Visibility:
Public [25]
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For Waste Industry, PFAS Disposal Leads to Controversy, Regulation, Mounting Costs [51]

The toxic compounds known as PFAS are causing a crisis in the waste and recycling industry, which faces mounting regulation and litigation over handling its presence in the waste stream. One reporter on the PFAS front lines explains the industry’s dilemma, as well as the challenges of covering the story and how a financial prism led to important insights into industry’s response.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [52]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [39]
Economy & Business [9]
Environmental Health [11]
Health [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Military [53]
Pollution [19]
Waste [40]
Water & Oceans [20]
Region:
National (U.S.) [21]
California [54]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [41]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [50]
Northwest (OR WA) [55]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Visibility:
Public [25]
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Conservative Court To Consider Upcoming Environment Cases [56]

Amy Coney Barrett’s swearing-in as associate justice this week brings a solidifying conservative majority to the Supreme Court. That likely means environmental issues coming before the justices will face new legal tests. The latest TipSheet explores four prominent cases coming to the high court this term that will help shed light on its evolving views on climate, water and public information.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [38]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [32]
Climate Change [6]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Fish & Fisheries [49]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Policy [18]
Pollution [19]
Water & Oceans [20]
Wildlife [57]
Region:
National (U.S.) [21]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [24]
Visibility:
Public [25]
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Letting Residents Take the Lead in ‘Polluter's Paradise’ [58]

A battery of polluting industry spewing toxic pollution and a small town of residents south of Baton Rouge unbowed by their circumstance make for the ingredients of a powerful team investigative project, newly named to the top prize in the Society of Environmental Journalists’ 2020 reporting awards. Inside Story offers a look behind “Polluter’s Paradise” in a Q&A with reporter Tristan Baurick.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [59]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [31]
Air [5]
Chemicals [39]
Environmental Politics [12]
Health [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
People & Population [16]
Pollution [19]
Region:
National (U.S.) [21]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Visibility:
Public [25]
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Climate-Unfriendly Coal May Be Losing Ground in U.S., But Not Worldwide [60]

When it comes to climate change, coal’s carbon emissions mean trouble. But as Backgrounder explains, if the once-powerful coal industry is on the decline in the United States, the fuel’s still finding favor worldwide. And that’s bad news for the Paris climate accord’s hopes of gaining control of runaway warming. The story behind the “exaggerated death” of coal.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [61]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [5]
Climate Change [6]
Consumer [7]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Natural Resources [15]
Policy [18]
Pollution [19]
Region:
National (U.S.) [21]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [22]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [43]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
International [44]
Asia [62]
Australia & Oceania [63]
Visibility:
Public [25]
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Bringing Stories Home Under Lockdown, With Remote Video Interviews [64]

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.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [52]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [31]
Agriculture [4]
Air [5]
Biodiversity [32]
Chemicals [39]
Climate Change [6]
Consumer [7]
Disasters [8]
Economy & Business [9]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Environmental Studies [65]
Fish & Fisheries [49]
Food [66]
Forests [67]
Government [27]
Health [13]
Journalism & Media [14]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Military [53]
Natural Resources [15]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [33]
Other or All [68]
People & Population [16]
Planning & Growth [17]
Policy [18]
Pollution [19]
Science [34]
Technology [35]
Transportation [29]
Waste [40]
Water & Oceans [20]
Region:
National (U.S.) [21]
Alaska and Hawaii [69]
California [54]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [41]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [42]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [22]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [43]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [50]
Northwest (OR WA) [55]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [23]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [24]
International [44]
Canada [70]
Mexico [45]
Africa [71]
Antarctica & Arctic [72]
Asia [62]
Australia & Oceania [63]
Central America & the Caribbean [73]
Europe [74]
Middle East [75]
South America [76]
Visibility:
Public [25]
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