Publication Items

Will the Downturn in Environmental Enforcement Continue in 2019? [1]

Enforcement on the environment front is way down recently, and that may not just be true at the EPA but other federal and state agencies as well. This special edition of TipSheet, part of our 2019 Journalists’ Guide to Energy and Environment, tracks the trend, pointing to some exemplary reporting that’s been covering the issue and showing how to use numerous data sources to investigate it on your own.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [5]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
- Read more about Will the Downturn in Environmental Enforcement Continue in 2019? [1]
Many Environmental Court Disputes Will Make News in 2019 [10]

U.S. courts will be a key venue of environmental conflict in 2019, as the Trump administration pushes back against an extensive array of long-standing environmental law. This special edition Issue Backgrounder looks at seven key legal disputes, including cases involving climate change liability, intergenerational equity and policy, as well as conflicts over maintaining national monuments, defining which waters are subject to anti-pollution rules, disposing of coal ash and extending offshore drilling.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Air [12]
Chemicals [13]
Climate Change [14]
Economy & Business [15]
Energy & Fuel [16]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [5]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Natural Resources [17]
Policy [18]
Pollution [19]
Waste [20]
Water & Oceans [21]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
California [22]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [23]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [24]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [25]
Visibility:
Public [9]
- Read more about Many Environmental Court Disputes Will Make News in 2019 [10]
Rollback on Auto Emission Standards Faces Rocky Road [26]

Expect the fight to worsen over the Trump Administration’s attempted rollback of auto mileage standards. Not only is California resisting a loss of its waiver to set tighter rules, joining at least 16 other states in a preemptive lawsuit. But carmakers themselves are deviating from the Trump line, worried over a fracturing of the nationwide auto market or seeking an edge in the field for more efficient vehicles. This special edition TipSheet looks at prospects for conflict in the year ahead.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [12]
Climate Change [14]
Consumer [27]
Economy & Business [15]
Energy & Fuel [16]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [5]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Policy [18]
Pollution [19]
Transportation [28]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
California [22]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [29]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [25]
International [30]
Middle East [31]
Visibility:
Public [9]
- Read more about Rollback on Auto Emission Standards Faces Rocky Road [26]
“Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It’s Changing the World” [32]

The economics of fracking may be as big a worry as its environmental impacts, finds a new book on the energy extraction industry. Our latest BookShelf reviews the volume from a seasoned business reporter, who questions conventional views about a renewed U.S. energy “dominance,” probes the financial instability of the industry’s boom and raises the politically destabilizing spectre of a future decline for the fossil fuel market.

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [33]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [15]
Energy & Fuel [16]
Environmental Politics [4]
Natural Resources [17]
Policy [18]
Technology [34]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
International [30]
Africa [35]
Middle East [31]
Visibility:
Public [9]
- Read more about “Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It’s Changing the World” [32]
Between the Lines: Getting Inside the Head of a Book Editor [36]

“Think big, but keep your feet on the ground” — that’s the kind of sound advice that would-be authors receive behind closed doors at the Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual conference, where book editors offer confidential feedback on author pitches in the yearly “Book Slam.” Now, SEJournal has tapped Slam moderator Meera Subramanian to gather book editors’ top 15 tips from the 2018 SEJ gathering in Flint. We share them with you in our latest Between the Lines.

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [33]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [6]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
International [30]
Visibility:
Public [9]
- Read more about Between the Lines: Getting Inside the Head of a Book Editor [36]
Climate Change Issue Will Heat Up in 2019 [37]

The topic of climate change will certainly heat up in 2019. That’s not just because a Democratic House will push back against the Trump administration, but also because of pressure from a “Green New Deal” clean-energy jobs movement, not to mention ongoing legal action, and corporate and state-level moves to limit carbon emissions. This special edition TipSheet explores the fault lines on climate in the year ahead.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Climate Change [14]
Energy & Fuel [16]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [5]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Policy [18]
Science [38]
Technology [34]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
International [30]
Visibility:
Public [9]
- Read more about Climate Change Issue Will Heat Up in 2019 [37]
The 2019 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment [39]

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 [40], organized by the Society of Environmental Journalists with the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [41]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Air [12]
Chemicals [13]
Climate Change [14]
Consumer [27]
Disasters [42]
Economy & Business [15]
Energy & Fuel [16]
Environmental Health [43]
Environmental Politics [4]
Environmental Studies [44]
Fish & Fisheries [45]
Forests [46]
Government [5]
Health [47]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Natural Resources [17]
People & Population [48]
Policy [18]
Pollution [19]
Science [38]
Technology [34]
Transportation [28]
Water & Oceans [21]
Wildlife [49]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
International [30]
Visibility:
Public [9]
- Read more about The 2019 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment [39]
Oversight on EPA FOIA Screening, Covering Pipeline Protests, Feedlot Air Emissions, Data on Illegal Fishing [50]

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 [51]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Agriculture [52]
Air [12]
Climate Change [14]
Energy & Fuel [16]
Environmental Politics [4]
Fish & Fisheries [45]
Government [5]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
People & Population [48]
Pollution [19]
Water & Oceans [21]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [29]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [53]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [54]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [23]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [55]
Northwest (OR WA) [56]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [24]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [25]
Visibility:
Public [9]
- Read more about Oversight on EPA FOIA Screening, Covering Pipeline Protests, Feedlot Air Emissions, Data on Illegal Fishing [50]
Under Trump, Squalls over Science Will Continue in 2019 [57]

The Trump administration’s “war on science” is playing out not just at the EPA, with its controversial proposed “secret science” rule, but at federal agencies throughout the government. This special TipSheet lays out the conflict, and offers guidance on how to turn the overarching issue into a story with character and a regional or local sense of place. Plus, see more in our ongoing 2019 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [58]
Climate Change [14]
Energy & Fuel [16]
Environmental Politics [4]
Environmental Studies [44]
Government [5]
Journalism & Media [6]
Natural Resources [17]
Science [38]
Technology [34]
Transportation [28]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
- Read more about Under Trump, Squalls over Science Will Continue in 2019 [57]
‘Cli-Fi’ a New Horizon for Climate Change Writers [59]

It's not often that a new genre of science writing opens up for freelancers. But writer Dan Bloom suggests there's a growing market for freelancers who want to write about climate in the form known as “cli-fi,” a new dystopian fiction that focuses on future impacts of climate change. Freelance Files editor Karen Schaefer invited him to share his perspective on the emerging genre.

SEJ Publication Types:
Freelance Files [60]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [14]
Journalism & Media [6]
Region:
International [30]
Visibility:
Public [9]
- Read more about ‘Cli-Fi’ a New Horizon for Climate Change Writers [59]

Pages