Join Climate Resilience for All for a three-day in-person training course in Accra, Ghana on February 10-12, 2025, designed to improve your reporting on the impacts of extreme heat, giving you new sources, story angles and ideas on how to cover the mounting impacts of this climate threat. Apply by Jan 6.
Journalists, institutions and others who have made a significant contribution to press freedom anywhere in the world, representing all types of media including digital media, may be nominated (in English or French) for this annual $25,000 prize. Deadline: Feb 15, 2025.
Meet SEJ’s newly elected board president, Halle Parker, an environment reporter for New Orleans Public Radio. In her inaugural President’s Report, Halle shares 2025 plans to raise SEJ leader voices to better protect our members and advocate for our industry — plus details on new, virtual office hours, a major funding milestone and how you can help support and shape SEJ’s future.
"U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday he will rename Denali, Alaska natives' name for North America's tallest mountain, after William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president who was assassinated in 1901."
"Melissa Ostroff finds gas leaks for a living, so it was surprising to hear someone say they smelled gas in her own home."
"In a first for the country, solar and wind generated more electricity than coal over most of 2024. The two renewable energy sources provided a record 17 percent of U.S. electricity from January to November, while coal contributed 15 percent, according to data from think tank Ember."
"Even as groundwater levels have rapidly declined in farming regions from California’s Central Valley to the High Plains, the federal government has mostly taken a hands-off approach to the chronic depletion of the nation’s aquifers. But in a new report for the White House, scientists say the country is facing serious and unprecedented groundwater challenges that call for the federal government to play a larger role."
"Maryland is suing Cecil County-based manufacturing giant W.L. Gore & Associates for knowingly polluting the air and surrounding water with toxic Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)."
"Citing a recent ProPublica investigation, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., urged the Environmental Protection Agency in a letter this week to issue a final report on the health risks of formaldehyde that is “science-based” and “as strong as possible,” adding that “the agency has an obligation to protect the public from the chemical.”"
"Years of toxic waste dumping in a Jersey Shore community where childhood cancer rates rose caused at least $1 billion in damage to natural resources, according to an environmental group trying to overturn a settlement between New Jersey and the corporate successor to the firm that did the polluting."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-extreme-heat-reporting-training-west-africa
[2] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-unescoguillermo-cano-world-press-freedom-prize
[3] https://www.sej.org/publications/sej-presidents-report/sej-here-you-navigating-what-s-ahead
[4] https://www.sej.org/headlines/trump-vows-rename-denali-mount-mckinley
[5] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-vows-rename-denali-north-americas-tallest-mountain-mt-mckinley-2024-12-22/
[6] https://www.sej.org/headlines/gas-leaks-must-be-fixed-utilities-new-proposed-phmsa-rule
[7] https://www.npr.org/2024/12/12/nx-s1-5111806/climate-gas-utility-methane
[8] https://www.sej.org/headlines/chart-wind-and-solar-overtook-coal-us-grid-2024
[9] https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/wind-and-solar-overtook-coal-on-the-us-grid-in-2024
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/wh-scientists-call-national-effort-curb-groundwater-depletion
[11] https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-12-20/white-house-groundwater-report
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/maryland-sues-gore-tex-company-polluting-water-pfas-chemicals
[13] https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-pfas-forever-chemical-cecil-gore-toxic/
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/senator-urges-epa-release-report-formaldehyde-health-risks
[15] https://www.propublica.org/article/formaldehyde-epa-blumenthal
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/group-says-new-jersey-toxic-waste-dumping-caused-1b-harm-sues
[17] https://apnews.com/article/toms-river-toxic-waste-cancer-ciba-geigy-90b270b4c3cec258923fb4bb85c816f0
[18] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[19] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=283
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=280
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=281
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=282
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=285
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=286
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=287
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=288
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4894