Publication Items

Why Now’s the Time To Tell a Good Fish Tale [1]

With fishing season underway across the United States, reporters have a line to an array of great, local environmental stories, whether about the recreation and tourism industries or overfishing and the health of regional ecosystems. The latest TipSheet has more than a dozen story ideas and reporting resources to help you reel in an angle of your own.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Biodiversity [4]
Climate Change [5]
Environmental Health [6]
Fish & Fisheries [7]
Food [8]
Journalism & Media [9]
Natural Resources [10]
Water & Oceans [11]
Wildlife [12]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Life on Mars and Other Space Oddities [15]

When an ecologist and a cartoonist team up to explore the realities of colonizing Mars, the result is a humorous and highly informative book on whether humans are truly up to settling space. They detour into the intimacies of zero-gravity intimacy and the challenges of ensuring a food supply. From BookShelf contributing editor Melody Kemp, a review of “A City on Mars.”

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [17]
Science [18]
Technology [19]
Transportation [20]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
International [21]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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In West Bank, Hope for Future in Link Between Land and People [22]

On a tour of the West Bank this spring, Yessenia Funes found a region where the relationship between land and people serves as a counterweight to occupation and the threat of violence. For her Voices of Environmental Justice column, Funes exhorts fellow environment journalists to report on that struggle, through stories that touch on wildlife, wildfire, food, climate and more.

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Voices of Environmental Justice [23]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [24]
Climate Change [5]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [26]
Food [8]
Government [27]
Journalism & Media [9]
Military [28]
People & Population [29]
Policy [30]
Water & Oceans [11]
Region:
International [21]
Middle East [31]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Mapping Out Local PFAS Risk, As Federal Rules Waver [32]

As the Trump administration rolls back Biden-era rules limiting the presence of “forever chemicals” in drinking water, an updated data mapping tool helps pinpoint local angles on the PFAS story. The latest TipSheet outlines the basics on this class of widely used chemicals, their risks to humans and the challenges of regulating them, plus provides a half-dozen story ideas and questions to ask.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [33]
Consumer [34]
Health [35]
Journalism & Media [9]
Laws & Regulations [36]
Policy [30]
Pollution [37]
Science [18]
Water & Oceans [11]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Green Geeks Liberate Environmental Data [38]

Environmental journalists need environmental data, even as it’s being stripped from government sites by the Trump administration. That’s where a band of programmers organized into the Public Environmental Data Partners comes in. The latest Toolbox reports it’s rescuing wiped data and making it accessible to reporters. Learn who’s behind the project and get an overview of some of the datasets being restored.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [39]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [33]
Environmental Politics [26]
Government [27]
Journalism & Media [9]
Science [18]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Trump Pursues Broad Attack on Press Freedom [40]

In case you haven’t been keeping track, Donald Trump has been engaging in a multifront offensive against the news media and press freedom more generally. WatchDog Opinion catalogs the transgressions to illustrate how the president is moving to grasp control of White House pool coverage, beguile rich media owners, politicize libel law, kneecap public media and weaponize regulatory agencies.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog [41]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [42]
Government [27]
Journalism & Media [9]
Laws & Regulations [36]
Policy [30]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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‘Misplaced Trust’ Aims Big, But Finds Details Make the Difference [43]

A project of vast scope was needed to tell the untold story of stolen lands originally promised to Indigenous nations. But for Tristan Ahtone, it was the pursuit of "smaller" stories arising out of the detailed data that was the Grist team’s proudest result. Explore the high points — plus three key lessons — of this Pulliam Prize-winning project, in Ahtone’s Inside Story Q&A.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [44]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [26]
Government [27]
Laws & Regulations [36]
Natural Resources [10]
People & Population [29]
Policy [30]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Environmentalists Will Be Seeing Trump Forces in Court — Often [45]

The judiciary is looking to become a major environmental battleground for journalists to watch in the coming months and years, as activists confront the Trump administration over its deregulatory campaign. The new Issue Backgrounder maps out the action, explaining how key laws foster citizen suits, while numerous nonprofits are staffed up to sue. Plus, some ways to track the action.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [46]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Air [47]
Biodiversity [4]
Chemicals [33]
Climate Change [5]
Consumer [34]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [26]
Government [27]
Infrastructure [48]
Journalism & Media [9]
Laws & Regulations [36]
Natural Resources [10]
Policy [30]
Pollution [37]
Waste [49]
Water & Oceans [11]
Wildlife [12]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Environmental Justice Grants Disappear. Environmental Injustice Does Not [50]

Decades of effort to tackle the often-intractable problems of environmental injustice, supported in recent years by billions in funding, are now facing the knife under the Trump administration. The latest TipSheet provides a thumbnail history of government initiatives and why it matters, then offers a dozen story ideas and reporting resources to tell the story in your community.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [26]
Government [27]
Health [35]
Journalism & Media [9]
Laws & Regulations [36]
People & Population [29]
Policy [30]
Pollution [37]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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#SEJ2025 LIVE — On-the-Ground Coverage of Day Two Sessions From Reporters in Our Student Newsroom [51]

From clean energy and public lands to extreme heat and plastics, the #SEJ2025 LIVE student newsroom covered nearly a dozen topical sessions from the second day of the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference in Tempe, Arizona, in late April. Get key takeaways and top perspectives in Part 2 of our coverage from the April 26 program. Plus, see Part 1 [52], with coverage of the April 25 program, and our complete on-the-scene reporting from April 24 conference tours [53].

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [54]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [9]
Other or All [55]
Region:
National (U.S.) [13]
International [21]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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