Publication Items

As Realty Risk Data Is Pulled From Web, Alternatives Are Ready [1]

As one data source disappears, another often emerges, finds Reporter’s Toolbox, as it searches for ways to report on real estate risk. In our latest column, insight into where to find information on home hazards, especially from climate change, plus smart ways to use the data for your reporting and some emerging gaps to be aware of.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Consumer [4]
Disasters [5]
Journalism & Media [6]
Planning & Growth [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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A Town Derailed, a Trust Obtained [10]

The devastating 2023 East Palestine, Ohio, toxic train derailment left a legacy of illness and a town torn by competing understandings of the contamination’s aftereffects. A yearlong reporting initiative with photojournalist Rebecca Kiger and Time magazine writer Alejandro de la Garza worked to gain the community’s confidence and tell its story. Their prize-winning feature, in the latest Inside Story Q&A.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Air [12]
Chemicals [13]
Disasters [5]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Health [16]
Journalism & Media [6]
People & Population [17]
Pollution [18]
Science [19]
Transportation [20]
Water & Oceans [21]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [22]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Top Environment and Energy Topics To Watch in 2026 [23]

Explore our 10th annual Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy, as we scour the beat to identify 15 top stories to put on your radar for 2026. Our updated format for the special report provides a quick read and a broad scope — with insights on climate change and environmental justice, bird and insect declines, data centers and deep sea mining, deregulation and PFAS and much more. Get started here [23].

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [24]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [25]
Agriculture [26]
Air [12]
Biodiversity [27]
Chemicals [13]
Climate Change [3]
Disasters [5]
Economy & Business [28]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [30]
Environmental Studies [31]
Fish & Fisheries [32]
Forests [33]
Government [34]
Health [16]
Infrastructure [35]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [36]
Military [37]
Natural Resources [38]
Policy [39]
Pollution [18]
Science [19]
Technology [40]
Waste [41]
Water & Oceans [21]
Wildlife [42]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Alaska and Hawaii [43]
California [44]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [22]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [45]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [46]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [47]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [48]
Northwest (OR WA) [49]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [50]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [51]
International [52]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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From Words to Frames — Writer Learns To Wield Power of Visual Storytelling [53]

When writer Gulnaz Khan saw how global warming drove both natural loss and spiritual breaks for surrounding human communities, it started her on a PBS documentary series exploring sacred sites around the world threatened by climate change. But she also undertook another odyssey, one from writer to visual storyteller. What she learned on her journey from text to screen, in the new EJ InSight column.

SEJ Publication Types:
EJ InSight [54]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [26]
Biodiversity [27]
Climate Change [3]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Food [55]
Forests [33]
Government [34]
Health [16]
Journalism & Media [6]
Natural Resources [38]
People & Population [17]
Pollution [18]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [56]
Science [19]
Waste [41]
Water & Oceans [21]
Wildlife [42]
Region:
International [52]
Africa [57]
Asia [58]
South America [59]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Citizen Pollution Monitors Face Industry Pushback, Legal Threats [60]

A steep decline in the enforcement of environmental laws means the monitoring of pollution by citizens is more important than ever. But as the latest TipSheet notes, some states have passed laws that severely constrain the use of citizen monitoring or the sharing of findings. Get the backstory, along with top reporting angles and resources for finding monitoring in your area.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [61]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [25]
Air [12]
Environmental Health [14]
Environmental Justice [15]
Environmental Politics [30]
Environmental Studies [31]
Government [34]
Health [16]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [36]
Pollution [18]
Science [19]
Water & Oceans [21]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [50]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Orphans and Zombies — Reporting on Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Across the Country [62]

For more than a century, oil and gas companies have been drilling — and abandoning — wells across the country, leaving hundreds of thousands to potentially leak pollutants into the air, water and soil. Climate and environment reporter Martha Pskowski looks at how funding and regulatory issues are impacting efforts to identify and plug these wells, and offers resources for drilling into their story.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [63]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [26]
Air [12]
Climate Change [3]
Economy & Business [28]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Environmental Health [14]
Government [34]
Health [16]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [36]
Natural Resources [38]
Policy [39]
Pollution [18]
Technology [40]
Water & Oceans [21]
Wildlife [42]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [22]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [45]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [46]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [47]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [51]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Welcoming New Board Members; Bylaws Revisions Approved [64]

Society of Environmental Journalists President Halle Parker (pictured, left) welcomes three new members to the board of directors and lauds three stalwarts who are departing, plus she shares why the results of the vote on proposed membership bylaw revisions matter for the future of SEJ. The new SEJ President’s Report.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ Presidents Report [65]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [6]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
International [52]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Grants and Contracts Data — Fuel for Journalist-Gumshoes [66]

At one time, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was a reporter’s mecca for databases. Nowadays, not so much. But as the latest Reporter’s Toolbox points out, there remains a great government data source for journalists focused on environmental issues. Find out more about the official source for spending data on the U.S. government, including its superpower — search.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [34]
Journalism & Media [6]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Student Journalists, Adviser Take on University Censorship [67]

If it’s a journalism feel-good story you need heading into the holiday season, peek over the shoulder of the Ernie Pyle statue to the hall that houses the Media School at Indiana University Bloomington. Inside, you’ll find the heroes of the Indiana Daily Student, who, with the help of fellow journalists, stood up to suppression. WatchDog Opinion shares their inspirational story.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog [68]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [25]
Journalism & Media [6]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [22]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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Data Centers — A Local Drain on Power and Water, Coming to a Community Near You [69]

Thousands of energy-hungry, water-gulping data centers are helping fuel the artificial intelligence boom in the United States (and elsewhere). The latest TipSheet takes a closer look at this escalating phenomenon and encourages environmental journalists to look into how it may be playing out in their communities. Ten story ideas and reporting resources to cover data centers’ local impact.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [61]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [29]
Infrastructure [35]
Journalism & Media [6]
Planning & Growth [7]
Policy [39]
Pollution [18]
Water & Oceans [21]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
International [52]
Visibility:
Public [9]
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