Planet Forward's Storyfest recognizes and rewards the best and most compelling student-told stories illuminating environmental issues and solutions. Winners travel to a TBA destination to see and report on the environment. Submissions due Feb 23, 2026.
"The rodents are often considered ‘nuisance animals’, but they can play a vital role in maintaining healthy landscapes".
"Nearly 20% of all the wolves in Wisconsin are marked for death this week after a hunting group based in Kansas won a court appeal to rush the hunting season."
"A missed deadline for flights to look for polar bears means the work to locate oil reserves the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is effectively killed."
"The Biden administration will review several of the Trump administration’s most controversial energy rules, teeing up a possible reversal of policies that eased or erased efficiency regulations for lightbulbs, showerheads and more."
"The federal government announced Monday that it will support the ethanol industry in a lawsuit over biofuel waivers granted to oil refineries under President Donald Trump’s administration."
"Facing the rising threat of wildfire and extreme drought, Flagstaff, Ariz., unveiled an ambitious effort two years ago to cut the heat-trapping emissions that drive climate change."
"Pastor Aaron Trigg was at home when the water arrived in Rainelle. It had been raining hard all day, filling the creeks and rivers that run through southern West Virginia. In the past, such intense downpours would last only a few hours, but this storm brought wave after wave of torrential rain."
"The U.S. Supreme Court appears hesitant to side with Florida in a bitter water dispute that pits state’s oystermen against Georgia farmers."
"President Joe Biden’s plan to crank up electric vehicle infrastructure is short on publicly available details, but electric vehicle advocates already have a long list of ideas on how the administration can make it a reality."
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[2] https://www.sej.org/headlines/beavers-native-americans-promote-resurgence-natures-engineers
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/23/beavers-native-american-tribes-washington-california
[4] https://www.sej.org/headlines/20-wisconsin-wolves-be-killed-after-court-sides-hunters
[5] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wisconsin-wolf-hunt_n_60330622c5b66da5dba26725
[6] https://www.sej.org/headlines/seismic-survey-alaskan-arctic-refuge-won-t-move-forward
[7] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/climate/arctic-refuge-seismic-survey.html
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/biden-energy-dept-orders-sweeping-review-trump-energy-rules
[9] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/539651-biden-energy-dept-orders-sweeping-review-of-trump
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-changes-stand-sides-ethanol-industry-court-case
[11] https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-environment-iowa-lawsuits-biofuels-9b148042fbacd2b6f8e7af0178e27acc
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/cities-grapple-climate-gas-utilities-fight-stay-business
[13] https://www.npr.org/2021/02/22/967439914/as-cities-grapple-with-climate-change-gas-utilities-fight-to-stay-in-business
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/new-data-reveal-where-flood-damage-existential-threat
[15] https://www.npr.org/2021/02/22/966428165/a-looming-disaster-new-data-reveal-where-flood-damage-is-an-existential-threat
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/supreme-court-weighs-blame-georgia-florida-water-war
[17] https://bnanews.bna.com/environment-and-energy/supreme-court-weighs-blame-in-bitter-georgia-florida-water-war
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/long-road-tough-choices-ahead-biden-car-charging-pledge
[19] https://bnanews.bna.com/environment-and-energy/long-road-tough-choices-ahead-for-biden-car-charging-pledge
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[29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=5018