Publication Items

A Chance To Widen Public Information About Chemical Hazards [1]

For years, public information about some of the deadliest chemical security risks has been limited. But now that the Biden EPA is exploring the issue, our latest WatchDog opinion column explains why this is such an important open information issue for environmental reporters and other journalists.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [3]
Disasters [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Health [6]
Journalism & Media [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
People & Population [9]
Policy [10]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [12]
International [13]
Asia [14]
Visibility:
Public [15]
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Covering New IPCC Reports Helps Explain Gravity of Climate Crisis [16]

A new science assessment released this week pinpoints more global warming risks, but also represents reporting challenges to environmental journalists working to cover climate change. Veteran climate journalist Bob Berwyn has the latest news from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and advice for reporters working the climate beat. Plus, links to other climate change reporting resources.

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Features [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [18]
Climate Change [19]
Disasters [4]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [22]
Environmental Studies [23]
Forests [24]
Government [25]
Health [6]
Journalism & Media [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Planning & Growth [26]
Policy [10]
Science [27]
Transportation [28]
Water & Oceans [29]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
International [13]
Visibility:
Public [15]
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A Look Back at the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement [30]

The origins of the struggle to protect animal welfare began with preventing the brutal mistreatment of carriage horses. And a new volume explores how one man did much to extend those protections to many species with the founding of the ASPCA. Our BookShelf has a review of “A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement.”

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BookShelf [31]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [32]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [33]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [34]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [35]
International [13]
Europe [36]
Visibility:
Public [15]
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Get Organized Now for Next Year’s Tax Returns [37]

If you’re a freelancer with disorganized piles of 2021 receipts already gathering dust in a corner, the latest Freelance Files is for you. Globetrotting science journalist Dan Grossman shares his system (and advice from his accountant) for tracking expenses for travel, legal and professional services, business costs, home office use and more. Your Schedule C will never seem quite so disconcerting again.

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Freelance Files [38]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [39]
Journalism & Media [7]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
Visibility:
Public [15]
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Beach Closures Offer Key to Bigger Water Pollution Stories [40]

People all too often swim in waters whose pollution risks are far scarier — and far more real — than shark attacks. Yet little attention is paid to the environmental stories behind the beach closures such pollution can necessitate. TipSheet helps you dip your toe, with the backstory on the most common cause for these health risks, plus reporting resources.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [41]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [18]
Consumer [42]
Environmental Health [21]
Fish & Fisheries [43]
Health [6]
Infrastructure [44]
Journalism & Media [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [45]
Water & Oceans [29]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
California [46]
Visibility:
Public [15]
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As Climate Change Brings Extreme Heat Events, Human Health Is a Casualty [47]

With heat waves driven by global warming pounding parts of the western United States this summer, environmental journalists mustn’t overlook the toll on especially vulnerable populations, among them disadvantaged groups, the elderly, those in low-income housing and more. The latest Issue Backgrounder helps reporters understand heat’s health effects, track heat-vulnerable populations and clarifies how communities can prepare and prevent the worst public health impacts.

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Backgrounders [48]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [19]
Consumer [42]
Disasters [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [22]
Health [6]
Infrastructure [44]
Journalism & Media [7]
People & Population [9]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
Alaska and Hawaii [49]
California [46]
Northwest (OR WA) [50]
International [13]
Canada [51]
Europe [36]
Middle East [52]
Visibility:
Public [15]
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Reporters Reveal True Toll From Texas Winter Storm, Outages [53]

A reporting team at BuzzFeed used a powerful array of data analysis techniques to arrive at a disturbing conclusion about the wintery devastation in Texas — there were far more deaths than acknowledged. But their investigation didn’t stop there. They tracked down families of the deceased to understand the human toll and pressured government over its accountability. How they got the story for “The Graveyard Doesn’t Lie.”

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [17]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [4]
Environmental Politics [22]
Government [25]
Health [6]
Infrastructure [44]
Journalism & Media [7]
People & Population [9]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [12]
Visibility:
Public [15]
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Tree Equity Score Offers Aid in Covering Urban Tree Issues [54]

Urban tree cover is no luxury, but rather an important environmental and public health necessity. And for years the lack of urban trees has harmed socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods. To help report on tree cover in U.S. urban areas — and to track it against environmental justice measures — the latest Reporter’s Toolbox spotlights an extensive tree equity scoring database.

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Reporters Toolbox [55]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [19]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Justice [5]
Health [6]
Journalism & Media [7]
People & Population [9]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
Visibility:
Public [15]
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Solar Panel Stories Can Shine for Local, Regional Reporters [56]

As the solar panel business resurges, the wide scope of possible regional and local story angles — climate, tech, consumer, business, jobs, air quality and grid reliability — make bright prospects for journalists. The latest TipSheet sets out recent political and market developments, along with more than a dozen story ideas and reporting resources.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [41]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [19]
Consumer [42]
Economy & Business [39]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Politics [22]
Government [25]
Infrastructure [44]
Journalism & Media [7]
Natural Resources [57]
Policy [10]
Technology [58]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
International [13]
Asia [14]
Visibility:
Public [15]
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Journalists Team Up To Continue Colleagues’ Work Exposing Mining Risks [59]

Environmental journalists around the world sometimes pay for their work with their freedom, safety or even their lives. The Forbidden Stories network continues the reporting of some of those journalists, and a team there recently produced an award-winning collaboration to investigate troubles at mining giants in Central America, South Asia and East Africa. “The Green Blood Project” in this month’s Inside Story.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [60]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [61]
Disasters [4]
Economy & Business [39]
Environmental Health [21]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [22]
Health [6]
Journalism & Media [7]
Natural Resources [57]
People & Population [9]
Pollution [45]
Waste [62]
Water & Oceans [29]
Region:
International [13]
Africa [63]
Asia [14]
Central America & the Caribbean [64]
Visibility:
Public [15]
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