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#SEJ2026 Live — Coverage of Conference Tours [1]

SEJournal is providing full coverage of all eight of the day-long tours from the annual Society of Environmental Journalists’ conference, April 15-18, in Chicago. In Part 2, contributors Meg Duff [2], Nathaniel Eisen [3], Nhung Nguyen [4] and Marlowe Starling [5] provide detailed reports from tours focused on the transitioning steel industry, microgrids, climate-friendly crop practices and evolving Midwestern agricultural systems.

Also check out the first round of tour coverage and read all the great work [1] from our team of early-career freelance journalists, part of SEJournal’s live #SEJ2026 Live conference reporting.

SEJ Publication Types: 
SEJ News [6]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [7]
Agriculture [8]
Air [9]
Biodiversity [10]
Chemicals [11]
Climate Change [12]
Consumer [13]
Economy & Business [14]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Justice [17]
Environmental Politics [18]
Environmental Studies [19]
Food [20]
Forests [21]
Government [22]
Health [23]
Infrastructure [24]
Journalism & Media [25]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Natural Resources [27]
People & Population [28]
Planning & Growth [29]
Policy [30]
Pollution [31]
Science [32]
Technology [33]
Transportation [34]
Waste [35]
Water & Oceans [36]
Wildlife [37]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [38]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [39]
Visibility: 
Public [40]
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Stakes High As Supreme Court Set To Rule On Law Involving Glyphosate [41]

"Risks from cancer and other diseases could be hidden with little accountability if justices favor big firms, critics warn"

Agriculture [8]
Biodiversity [10]
Chemicals [11]
Consumer [13]
Economy & Business [14]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Politics [18]
Environmental Studies [19]
Food [20]
Laws & Regulations [26]
People & Population [28]
Pollution [31]
Science [32]
Public [40]
National (U.S.) [38]
Source: Guardian [42], 04/17/2026
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"Food Companies Backslide on Promises to Reduce Pesticides" [43]

"As evidence of pesticide risks increases, a new report finds that the food industry is ‘actively reversing progress’ on lowering their use in supply chains."

Agriculture [8]
Chemicals [11]
Consumer [13]
Environmental Politics [18]
Food [20]
People & Population [28]
Pollution [31]
Public [40]
National (U.S.) [38]
Source: Civil Eats [44], 04/10/2026
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"Warming Waters in the Gulf of Maine May Affect the Future of Lobsters" [45]

"Researchers studying the crustacean’s early life cycles find clues that can help the fishery that depends on them plan for a warmer future."

Biodiversity [10]
Climate Change [12]
Consumer [13]
Fish & Fisheries [46]
Food [20]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [40]
Source: Inside Climate News [47], 04/10/2026
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"From Digging Coal To Selling Noodles? China’s Mining Workers Face Change" [48]

"Yang Haiming didn’t stop working when he retired from the coal mines at age 60. Instead, he jumped into a new industry."

Climate Change [12]
Economy & Business [14]
Energy & Fuel [15]
Food [20]
People & Population [28]
Public [40]
Asia [49]
Source: AP [50], 04/09/2026
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"California Bill Aims to Keep Toxic PFAS off Its Crops" [51]

"The nation’s top agricultural producer could ban pesticides with PFAS after researchers found the “forever chemicals” on 40 percent of the conventional produce grown in the state."

Agriculture [8]
Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [16]
Food [20]
Laws & Regulations [26]
People & Population [28]
Pollution [31]
Public [40]
National (U.S.) [38]
California [52]
Source: Inside Climate News [53], 04/09/2026
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"Maine’s Support for Farms With ‘Forever Chemicals’ Seen as Model" [54]

"It’s been a decade since farmers began to learn that contamination from PFAS unknowingly spread across their property could devastate their lives and livelihoods, but Maine is showing it’s possible to keep farms going despite the problems caused by the “forever chemicals.”

Agriculture [8]
Chemicals [11]
Consumer [13]
Disasters [55]
Environmental Health [16]
Environmental Politics [18]
Food [20]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Pollution [31]
Waste [35]
Water & Oceans [36]
Public [40]
National (U.S.) [38]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [56]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [57], 03/31/2026
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"How to Reduce Your Exposure to Pesticides" [58]

"Scientists still don’t fully understand the health risks of the chemicals. Here’s how they recommend protecting yourself."

Agriculture [8]
Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [16]
Food [20]
Laws & Regulations [26]
Pollution [31]
Public [40]
National (U.S.) [38]
Source: NYTimes [59], 03/26/2026
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"Trump’s Park Service Nominee and The Niagara Threat" [60]

"Last month, the Trump administration announced Scott Socha as its new nominee to lead the National Park Service ...,  much diminished since it was gutted by DOGE ... . As with many of the political appointees at Trump’s Interior Department, Socha comes directly from a corporation with abundant business interests before the agency he is slated to lead. He has worked [at a]  hospitality and food services giant that controls lucrative concessions at national parks around the country."

Economy & Business [14]
Environmental Politics [18]
Food [20]
Government [22]
Public [40]
National (U.S.) [38]
Source: Public Domain [61], 03/26/2026
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"Nebraska Fires Burn Grazing Lands, Threaten Plans To Grow US Cattle Herd" [62]

"Wildfires burn nearly 775,000 acres in Nebraska. Land is a grazing resource for about 40,000 cows."

Agriculture [8]
Climate Change [12]
Disasters [55]
Food [20]
Public [40]
National (U.S.) [38]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [63]
Source: Reuters [64], 03/24/2026
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