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"Trump, Administration Heads Sued Over East Wing Demolition" [1]

"President Donald Trump and several administration officials were hit with a lawsuit Friday over the demolition of the White House’s East Wing to make way for a 90,000 square foot ballroom."

Environmental Studies [2]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Planning & Growth [4]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [7], 12/15/2025
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"States Push To End Secrecy Over Data Center Water Use" [8]

"States facing drought and dwindling groundwater supplies are seeking to pull back the curtain on water use at data centers, in a push for transparency that has scrambled traditional partisan alliances."

Agriculture [9]
Consumer [10]
Environmental Politics [11]
Environmental Studies [2]
Journalism & Media [12]
Planning & Growth [4]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: E&E News [14], 12/09/2025
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"More Than 200 Environmental Groups Demand Halt To New US Datacenters" [15]

"A coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a national moratorium on new datacenters in the US, the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry that has been blamed for escalating electricity bills and worsening the climate crisis."

Climate Change [16]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Politics [11]
Environmental Studies [2]
Infrastructure [18]
Laws & Regulations [3]
Planning & Growth [4]
Pollution [19]
Technology [20]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Guardian [21], 12/09/2025
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"Millions Have Fled Weather Disasters, But They Had Few Champions At COP30" [22]

"Advocates are working to ensure that world leaders don’t ignore people displaced by climate change."

Climate Change [16]
Disasters [23]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Justice [25]
Laws & Regulations [3]
People & Population [26]
Planning & Growth [4]
Public [5]
International [27]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [28], 12/03/2025
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"The State of Local News 2025": 20 Years of Data, Deserts and Dynamic Change [29]

"News deserts are widening. Newspaper closures continue unabated. Independent publishers are calling it quits at an alarming rate. Yet local digital-only news sites are multiplying. Many are even thriving."

Consumer [10]
Economy & Business [30]
Journalism & Media [12]
People & Population [26]
Planning & Growth [4]
Technology [20]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Medill [31], 12/01/2025
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"Spread Of Data Centers Raises Risk Of Winter Outages, Grid Monitor Warns" [32]

"More than a dozen states where data centers are spreading fastest could face electric power emergencies under extreme conditions this winter, the grid’s security monitor warned Tuesday."

Climate Change [16]
Disasters [23]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Infrastructure [18]
People & Population [26]
Planning & Growth [4]
Technology [20]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: E&E News [33], 11/20/2025
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Data Centers — A Local Drain on Power and Water, Coming to a Community Near You [34]

Thousands of energy-hungry, water-gulping data centers are helping fuel the artificial intelligence boom in the United States (and elsewhere). The latest TipSheet takes a closer look at this escalating phenomenon and encourages environmental journalists to look into how it may be playing out in their communities. Ten story ideas and reporting resources to cover data centers’ local impact.

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Topics on the Beat: 
Energy & Fuel [17]
Infrastructure [18]
Journalism & Media [12]
Planning & Growth [4]
Policy [36]
Pollution [19]
Water & Oceans [13]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [6]
International [27]
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Public [5]
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"The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived" [37]

"A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year."

Activism [38]
Climate Change [16]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Politics [11]
Infrastructure [18]
Planning & Growth [4]
Pollution [19]
Technology [20]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: WIRED [39], 11/17/2025
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"If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here’s Where They Should Go" [40]

"A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built."

Climate Change [16]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Infrastructure [18]
Planning & Growth [4]
Technology [20]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: WIRED [41], 11/13/2025
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Queer Ecology — A Powerful Lens for Reporting on Environmental Injustice [42]

Queer ecology is an evolving field that challenges traditional assumptions in science and explores LGBTQ+ experiences in an ecological context. It’s easy to catch your audience’s attention with stories about transitioning clownfish or same-sex albatross parenting. But as contributor Isaias Hernandez explains, queer ecology also offers journalists an important perspective for covering a range of environmental issues, from climate risk to pollution exposure, and reimagining environmental narratives.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Features [43]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [38]
Agriculture [9]
Air [44]
Biodiversity [45]
Climate Change [16]
Disasters [23]
Diversity [46]
Environmental Health [24]
Environmental Justice [25]
Environmental Politics [11]
Environmental Studies [2]
Health [47]
Journalism & Media [12]
People & Population [26]
Planning & Growth [4]
Science [48]
Wildlife [49]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [6]
International [27]
Visibility: 
Public [5]
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