"ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH, La. — As white smoke wafted from a massive oil and gas refinery that sits near his backyard, Michael Coleman reminisced about the sweet days of his childhood, before sugar cane fields that stretched for miles were sold and replaced by chemical companies that wiped out the “nice little community we had here.”
"A $9 billion highway widening project being proposed in the Houston area could become an important test of the Biden administration’s commitment to addressing what it has said is a history of racial inequity with infrastructure projects in the U.S."
"The Tennessee Valley Authority received the final regulatory approval it needs to remove tons of coal ash from ponds in Southwest Memphis and transport them along Shelby Drive to a landfill in Southeast Memphis."
"A coal phaseout by 2030, more electric vehicles and rapid renewables expansion: Germany's new coalition has promised a climate bonanza. But can the ambitious targets be hit?"
"The Biden administration approved an offshore wind farm off the coasts of Rhode Island and New York on Wednesday as part of a plan to deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030."
"The department recommended higher fees for oil and gas leases, but there was no sign the government planned to take global warming into account when weighing new applications."
SEJ offers an extensive Climate Change Resource Guide to reporters and editors, especially those newer to the climate change beat, in order to support their coverage of this all-important topic. On this page you'll find policy and advocacy documents sorted by intergovernmental, governmental and NGO & private sector categories.
As the dust settles on COP28, climate change news abounds. So to help environmental journalists find and report stories on the beat, SEJ Publications continues to expand its growing Climate Change Resource Guide [15]. Explore dozens of new information sources in the just-added Disaster and Extreme Weather [16] section. Plus, hundreds of other topical resources and more in the overarching Guide, including on deadline reporting, local reporting, science 101s, key sources and experts, news sources, and a policy and advocacy library.
Here's a list of top environmental justice stories from SEJournal.
The history of environmental racism is a long one in the United States, far longer than the efforts to address the problem. But reporting on environmental justice continues to tick upwards, and an analysis in the latest Backgrounder points to promising progress, explaining why for journalists the year ahead may yield important stories, whether about future footholds or new missteps.
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-s-regan-vows-help-hard-hit-areas-residents-have-doubts
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/11/28/epa-regan-environmental-justice-tour/
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/houston-highway-project-sparks-debate-over-racial-equity
[4] https://apnews.com/article/environment-houston-pollution-71cc6a6275dfee8df152ffb8f2e37198
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/regulator-gives-tva-approval-bury-coal-ash-southeast-memphis
[6] https://apnews.com/article/business-environment-tennessee-memphis-8be4330b5712faf2c0ceca1b1eac26b5
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/germanys-new-coalition-promises-climate-revolution
[8] https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-new-coalition-promises-climate-revolution/a-59951358
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/interior-department-approves-2nd-large-us-offshore-wind-farm
[10] https://apnews.com/article/business-environment-and-nature-united-states-environment-rhode-island-dd60451fec572ee1eef62c4f622731e9
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/interior-dept-report-drilling-mostly-silent-climate-change
[12] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/climate/climate-change-drilling-public-lands.html
[13] https://www.sej.org/climate-guide/climate-change-policy-advocacy-library
[14] https://www.sej.org/climate-guide/climate-change-topics
[15] https://www.sej.org/climate-guide
[16] https://www.sej.org/climate-guide/climate-change-topics#disasters
[17] https://www.sej.org/topic-beat-environmental-justice
[18] https://www.sej.org/publications/backgrounders/biden-administration-struggle-environmental-justice-2022
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[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1279
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1276
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[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1278
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