In this special report, “2024 Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy,” the SEJournal looks ahead in our eighth annual guide to key issues in the coming year. Check out the guide’s forward-focused TipSheets and Backgrounders, plus an overview analysis and a report from the Society of Environmental Journalists' year-ahead event [2] in Washington, D.C.

 

Year-Ahead Event Coverage

• Gathering Offers Sobering Look Ahead at 2024, But With Glimmers of Hope [3]

 

Overview Analysis

• Floods, Fires, Dysfunction — Another Year Ahead of Faltering Steps on Environment, Energy [4]

 

Special TipSheets

• Seabed Mining May Dredge Up Real Minerals, Fishy Worries in 2024 [5]
• Do Home Buyers Have a Right to Flood Risk Disclosure? [6] (Part Two of Two)
• Home Insurance Likely To Be a 2024 Climate Story Near You [7] (Part One of Two)
• Funding To Replace Lead Pipes Is Just the Start of the Story [8]
• Waste Incineration May Put Toxics Into Local Air [9]
• Dangerous Inland Flooding in Reporters’ Forecast [10]

Plus, more forward-looking TipSheets [11]:

• Wildfire Smoke — Now a Local Story in Unaccustomed Places [12]
• When Extreme Weather Amplifies Hazardous Waste Threats [13]
• Funding Initiative May Help Surface Overlooked Environmental Justice Stories [14]
• Reporters Can Address Uncertainty Over Local Risk of Rising Seas [15]

 

Issue Backgrounders

• Why Environmental Reporters Need To ‘Get’ the Budget Process [16]
• Electric Vehicles Will Be Burning Rubber in 2024 [17]
• COP28 Will Be Earth-Shaping News in 2024 and Beyond [18]
• Painful Process Underway of Regulating PFAS in Drinking Water [19]
• Both Sides Now — How Permitting Reform May Affect Fossil Fuel, Clean Energy Industries [20]
• How To Power Through Your EPA Power Plant Rule Coverage [21]

 

Also be sure to check out this past year's 2023 Guide [22].