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Top Environment and Energy Topics To Watch in 2026 [1]

Explore our 10th annual Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy, as we scour the beat to identify 15 top stories to put on your radar for 2026. Our updated format for the special report provides a quick read and a broad scope — with insights on climate change and environmental justice, bird and insect declines, data centers and deep sea mining, deregulation and PFAS and much more. Get started here [1].

SEJ Publication Types: 
SEJ News [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [3]
Agriculture [4]
Air [5]
Biodiversity [6]
Chemicals [7]
Climate Change [8]
Disasters [9]
Economy & Business [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [15]
Fish & Fisheries [16]
Forests [17]
Government [18]
Health [19]
Infrastructure [20]
Journalism & Media [21]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Military [23]
Natural Resources [24]
Policy [25]
Pollution [26]
Science [27]
Technology [28]
Waste [29]
Water & Oceans [30]
Wildlife [31]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [32]
Alaska and Hawaii [33]
California [34]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [35]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [36]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [37]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [38]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [39]
Northwest (OR WA) [40]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [41]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [42]
International [43]
Visibility: 
Public [44]
  • Read more about Top Environment and Energy Topics To Watch in 2026 [1]

From Words to Frames — Writer Learns To Wield Power of Visual Storytelling [45]

When writer Gulnaz Khan saw how global warming drove both natural loss and spiritual breaks for surrounding human communities, it started her on a PBS documentary series exploring sacred sites around the world threatened by climate change. But she also undertook another odyssey, one from writer to visual storyteller. What she learned on her journey from text to screen, in the new EJ InSight column.

SEJ Publication Types: 
EJ InSight [46]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [4]
Biodiversity [6]
Climate Change [8]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Food [47]
Forests [17]
Government [18]
Health [19]
Journalism & Media [21]
Natural Resources [24]
People & Population [48]
Pollution [26]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [49]
Science [27]
Waste [29]
Water & Oceans [30]
Wildlife [31]
Region: 
International [43]
Africa [50]
Asia [51]
South America [52]
Visibility: 
Public [44]
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Farmers Block Mexico’s Congress With Tractors To Protest Water Law Proposal [53]

"Dozens of farmers drove their tractors in a caravan to Mexico City and blocked an entrance to Mexico’s Congress on Wednesday to protest a new national water law that imposes stricter controls on water use."

Activism [3]
Agriculture [4]
Climate Change [8]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [20]
Laws & Regulations [22]
People & Population [48]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [44]
Mexico [54]
Source: AP [55], 12/05/2025
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"New Report Warns of Critical Climate Risks in Arab Region" [56]

"As global warming accelerates, about 480 million people in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula face intensifying and in some places unsurvivable heat, as well as drought, famine and the risk of mass displacement, the World Meteorological Organization warned Thursday."

Agriculture [4]
Climate Change [8]
Disasters [9]
Environmental Health [12]
People & Population [48]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [44]
Africa [50]
Middle East [57]
Source: Inside Climate News [58], 12/05/2025
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Chesapeake Bay Leaders Agree on Longer Timeline and Tribal Role in Cleanup [59]

"The revised watershed agreement extends pollution-reduction targets and bets on voluntary measures to achieve cleanup goals that have remained elusive for decades."

Agriculture [4]
Biodiversity [6]
Chemicals [7]
Climate Change [8]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Fish & Fisheries [16]
Food [47]
Government [18]
Laws & Regulations [22]
People & Population [48]
Pollution [26]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [44]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [37]
Source: Inside Climate News [60], 12/05/2025
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"Trump Admin Backs Monsanto Effort To Limit Roundup Lawsuits Over Glyphosate" [61]

"The Trump administration is backing Monsanto in its effort to get the Supreme Court to shield it from liability over cancer claims related to its Roundup weedkiller, a move that could anger the Trump administration’s allies in the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement."

Agriculture [4]
Chemicals [7]
Consumer [62]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Pollution [26]
Science [27]
Public [44]
National (U.S.) [32]
Source: The Hill [63], 12/03/2025
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"New Analysis Provides More Evidence That Heat Standards Save Lives" [64]

"As the Trump administration is expected to finalize a standard to prevent heat-related injury and illness for workers by early next year, a new study shows that clear, comprehensive rules save lives."

Agriculture [4]
Climate Change [8]
Disasters [9]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [22]
People & Population [48]
Public [44]
National (U.S.) [32]
Source: Inside Climate News [65], 12/03/2025
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BLM Lets Ranchers Renew Grazing Permits With Little Environmental Scrutiny [66]

"With dwindling oversight, cattle are grazing where they’re not supposed to and in greater numbers or for longer periods than permitted. This can spread invasive plants, pushing out native species and worsening wildfire risk."

Agriculture [4]
Biodiversity [6]
Environmental Politics [14]
Environmental Studies [15]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Wildlife [31]
Public [44]
National (U.S.) [32]
Source: ProPublica/HCN [67], 12/02/2025
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Orphans and Zombies — Reporting on Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Across the Country [68]

For more than a century, oil and gas companies have been drilling — and abandoning — wells across the country, leaving hundreds of thousands to potentially leak pollutants into the air, water and soil. Climate and environment reporter Martha Pskowski looks at how funding and regulatory issues are impacting efforts to identify and plug these wells, and offers resources for drilling into their story.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Features [69]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [4]
Air [5]
Climate Change [8]
Economy & Business [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Government [18]
Health [19]
Journalism & Media [21]
Laws & Regulations [22]
Natural Resources [24]
Policy [25]
Pollution [26]
Technology [28]
Water & Oceans [30]
Wildlife [31]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [32]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [35]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [36]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [37]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [38]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [42]
Visibility: 
Public [44]
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EPA Urged To Ban Spraying Of Antibiotics On Food Crops Amid Resistance Fears [70]

"A new legal petition filed by a dozen public health and farm worker groups demands the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) stop allowing farms to spray antibiotics on food crops in the US because they are probably causing superbugs to flourish and sickening farm workers."

Agriculture [4]
Biodiversity [6]
Chemicals [7]
Consumer [62]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [22]
People & Population [48]
Pollution [26]
Science [27]
Technology [28]
Public [44]
National (U.S.) [32]
Source: Guardian [71], 12/01/2025
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