Publication Items

To Report on Drinking Water, Know Its Source [1]

Safe drinking water is a long-standing challenge left unmet all across the United States. As our latest Issue Backgrounder explains, telling the story of drinkable water requires digging beneath complex relationships, understanding the sources of drinking water and much more. Here's help to do it.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Consumer [4]
Disasters [5]
Environmental Health [6]
Health [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Natural Resources [9]
People & Population [10]
Pollution [11]
Water & Oceans [12]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Maintenance Backlog a Pothole on Road to Parks Consensus [15]

The maintenance backlog at the National Park System is nearly $12 billion, and a hot button issue for various constituencies. But don't look for spending to clear it up any time soon, with major budget cuts proposed. This week's TipSheet outlines the issues, and provides resources and perspectives to cover the story.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [17]
Forests [18]
Government [19]
Natural Resources [9]
Wildlife [20]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Opening Pruitt’s Calendar and Saving EPA Climate Info; plus, DAPL FOIA Denied and Hoopla over Senate Hallway Interviews [21]

Unlike his predecessors, new EPA head Scott Pruitt isn't publishing his calendar. Pushback from enviros, plus, EPA's scrubbed climate info starts reappearing on city websites around the country. That and news on a Dakota Access Pipeline FOIA and on reporters fighting for Capitol Hill access in this month's WatchDog.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [22]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [23]
Climate Change [24]
Environmental Politics [17]
Government [19]
Journalism & Media [25]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Interior Appropriations — Dead on Arrival and Live at Five [26]

Even though big proposed budget cuts may be DOA for the Interior Department, it doesn't mean there aren't a wide range of land and resource-related stories emerging from the debates. The latest TipSheet sets the scene and offers a half-dozen ways to localize the Interior Department funding story.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [27]
Environmental Politics [17]
Forests [18]
Government [19]
Journalism & Media [25]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Natural Resources [9]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [28]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [29]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [30]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [31]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [32]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Between the Lines: Forged in Fire — Author Follows the Flames, and Fights Them, To Cover the Changing Nature of Wildfires [33]

The global rise of large-scale, intense and devastating wildfires is the subject of a new book by award-winning photojournalist Michael Kodas, who spoke with SEJournal's book editor about what makes these new fires so different, what role climate change plays and how he joined firefighters amid the flames.

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [34]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [24]
Disasters [5]
Forests [18]
Journalism & Media [25]
Planning & Growth [35]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Harmful Algal Blooms Plague Polluted Summer Waters [36]

The harmful algal blooms brought on by excessive nutrient pollution in warm summer waters can be dangerous to humans, animals and fish. Our latest TipSheet will help you cover the phenomenon, make the distinction between algae and toxic cyanobacteria, and point you to sources for forecasting outbreaks.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Fish & Fisheries [37]
Health [7]
Journalism & Media [25]
Water & Oceans [12]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [38]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [31]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Hurricane Season Brings Surprises, and Surprising Depth [39]

Atlantic hurricane season is underway, and our latest Issue Backgrounder helps reporters get prepared, not just for the inevitable surprises, but also for the new issues these storms are raising. Plus, as part of our recent series: An Inside Story on award-winning storm coverage [40] and a TipSheet on covering hurricanes [41].

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Studies [42]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Summertime and the Air is (Cough) Unhealthy [43]

With summer heat in many cities comes worsening air pollution, and a crop of smog-related stories. This week's TipSheet explains how smog forms and harms health, then helps you report on local smog factors and learn if your area is in "nonattainment" with EPA ozone standards, themselves a shifting target under Trump.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [44]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Award-Winner Looks Ahead to Prospects of a Perfect Storm [40]

Extreme weather hypotheticals can be hard to cover. But when news teams Texas Tribune and ProPublica partnered on an award-winning investigation into how a major hurricane in Houston could kill thousands and cripple the national economy, they produced an innovative digital reporting package that brought home the human impacts.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [45]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [24]
Disasters [5]
Economy & Business [46]
Journalism & Media [25]
Region:
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [32]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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No ‘Day at the Beach’ with Pollution-related Closures [47]

Every summer, beaches are closed across the United States because of pollution that can bring disease to beachgoers. That suggests local stories, such as problems with sewage systems and algal blooms known as 'red tides.' The latest TipSheet shares resources and info to help you cover the local beach closure beat.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Health [7]
Journalism & Media [25]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [11]
Water & Oceans [12]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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