In this special report, “2025 Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy,” the SEJournal looks ahead in our ninth annual guide to key issues in the coming year. Check out the guide’s special forward-focused TipSheets, Backgrounders, WatchDogs, a new EJ TransitionWatch column and an overview analysis.

 

Overview Analysis

• Environmental Policies Upended, Climate Plans a Casualty As Trump Takes Power [2]

EJ TransitionWatch

• Energy-Dominance Exponent Coasts Into Interior [3]
• EPA Nominee Heads for Approval, Despite Inexperience [4]
• ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ Could Undo Biden’s Climate Progress [5]
• What Biden Rules Could Congress Unplug With Review Act? [6]
• What Will a Second Trump Term Mean for Environmental Justice? [7]
• Climate Action Looks First To Go Under New Administration [8]
• Trump’s Public Health Agency Picks, Looking Peaked? [9]
• EPA Science Integrity Threatened by House Republicans [10]
• Will Trump ‘Disappear’ Environment, Climate Data? [11]
• Is Fluoride Facing Phaseout in Your Community’s Drinking Water? [12]

Issue Backgrounders

• Insurance Meltdown a Foreseeable Climate Disaster [13]
• What Would Trump 2.0 Mean for the Environment? [14]
• How Climate Change Complicates the Refugee Crisis [15]
• Will the Coming Plastics Treaty Solve the Problem Or Enshrine It? [16]
• Does Kamala Harris Have a Green Streak? [17]

Plus, more forward-looking Backgrounders [18]:

• The EPA’s Power Plant Rule … We’ll See You in Court [19]
• EV Charging Stations — Are They There Yet? [20]
• LNG To Fuel Conflict, Profit, Warming in Coming Years [21]

WatchDog Opinion

• Press Freedom Issues Come to Fore As Trump 2.0 Launches [22]
• There Has Never Been a Better Time for Environmental Journalism [23]
• Will Trump 2.0 ‘Come After’ Journalists? [24]
• Attention Press Officers — Read This Reporter’s Bill of Rights [25]
• What Would a Second Trump Reign Mean for Press Freedom? [26]
• Why the Press Needs To Press for Senate Action on the PRESS Act [27]
• Harris Must Shed More Light on Her Press Freedom Views [28]

Plus, more forward-looking WatchDogs [29]:

• Should Weather Data Really Be Withheld From the Public? [30]

Special TipSheets

• Will Your Local Dam Turn Deadly in the Next Big Storm? [31]
• Could Beef Be the Route to a Bird Flu Pandemic? [32]
• What Makes Communities More Survivable in Extreme Heat Events? [33]
• Is Your Community Ready for Tornadoes? Are You? [34]

Plus, more forward-looking TipSheets [35]:

• Sewage Sludge Can Spread the Harm of Many Toxic Chemicals [36]
• Extreme Heat Changes Landscape for Summer Recreation Stories [37]
• New PFAS Drinking Water Rule Promises Local Stories [38]

Reporter’s Toolbox

• Is Climate Data at Risk From Natural Disasters? [39]

Other look-ahead coverage

• EJ Academy: Up for a Challenge — Fifty Environmental Journalists on the Profession and Its Future [40]
• Voices of Environmental Justice: Communities at Risk Are Climate Stories Too [41]
• Voices of Environmental Justice: Future of Justice40 Program Hangs in Balance [42]
• Feature: Better Communicating for the Climate [43]
• Feature: Coequal Catastrophes — Quammen on Climate Change, Extinction and Epidemics [44]
• Feature: Rethinking Rural Reporting — How To Get Past the Cliches [45]
• Feature: ‘Green’ Steel: Five Things To Know About the U.S. Transition [46]

 

Also be sure to check out this past year's 2024 Guide [47].