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Battle Over Gas Power Facility Generates Months-Long Investigation [1]

A private social media message piqued Arizona Republic reporter Joan Meiners’ interest in rural retirees’ efforts to block construction of a gas-fired peaker plant next to their homes. Her year-long, grant-funded investigation in 2024 uncovered questionable local government actions and utility executive motives, and concluded with action against the facility. Read Meiners’ account of how rural Arizonans became unlikely climate activists, in the latest FEJ Storylog.

SEJ Publication Types: 
FEJ StoryLog [2]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [3]
Air [4]
Consumer [5]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [8]
Health [9]
Journalism & Media [10]
People & Population [11]
Pollution [12]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [14]
Visibility: 
Public [15]
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Fearing Radioactive Waste, Pa. Community Fights to Stop Landfill Re-Opening [16]

"For years, residents of Grove City, Pennsylvania, have fought to stop a decades-old landfill from resuming operations in their town. They were worried the landfill would make legacy pollution in the area worse. But in 2022, information about the kind of waste the landfill would accept raised new fears."

Activism [3]
Environmental Health [17]
Environmental Politics [7]
Infrastructure [18]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [19]
Waste [20]
Public [15]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [21]
Source: Inside Climate News [22], 06/04/2025
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From Fear to Fascination — A New Insect Narrative [23]

Media coverage of “bugs” is often sensationalistic and centered on fear and disgust. But conservation photographer and writer Danae Wolfe says journalists should be highlighting the importance, beauty and plight of insects and spiders. Reporting that offers alternative perspectives on these essential creatures can inspire curiosity and admiration, and encourage efforts to protect them. Wolfe on why to write about insects.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Features [24]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [3]
Agriculture [25]
Biodiversity [26]
Chemicals [27]
Climate Change [28]
Environmental Health [17]
Environmental Studies [29]
Food [30]
Forests [31]
Journalism & Media [10]
Pollution [12]
Science [32]
Wildlife [33]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [13]
International [34]
Visibility: 
Public [15]
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"Mayors Are Making Climate Action Personal. It’s Working." [35]

"As the Trump administration boosts fossil fuels and rolls back regulations, mayors are greening their cities — in more ways than one." 

Activism [3]
Climate Change [28]
Energy & Fuel [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [8]
Infrastructure [18]
Transportation [36]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: Grist [37], 06/02/2025
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Why Now’s the Time To Tell a Good Fish Tale [38]

With fishing season underway across the United States, reporters have a line to an array of great, local environmental stories, whether about the recreation and tourism industries or overfishing and the health of regional ecosystems. The latest TipSheet has more than a dozen story ideas and reporting resources to help you reel in an angle of your own.

SEJ Publication Types: 
TipSheet [39]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [3]
Biodiversity [26]
Climate Change [28]
Environmental Health [17]
Fish & Fisheries [40]
Food [30]
Journalism & Media [10]
Natural Resources [41]
Water & Oceans [42]
Wildlife [33]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [13]
Visibility: 
Public [15]
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"US Woman Brings First-Ever Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Big Oil" [43]

"A woman has brought the first-ever wrongful death lawsuit against big oil, claiming fossil fuel companies’ climate negligence caused her mother’s death during a major heatwave."

Activism [3]
Climate Change [28]
Disasters [44]
Environmental Health [17]
Laws & Regulations [45]
People & Population [11]
Pollution [12]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Northwest (OR WA) [46]
Source: Guardian [47], 05/30/2025
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Friends Complete Murdered Journalist Dom Phillips's Book on The Amazon [48]

"After British journalist Dom Phillips was shot and killed while researching an ambitious book on how to protect the world’s largest rainforest, friends vowed to finish the project. Three years later, their task is complete."

Activism [3]
Biodiversity [26]
Environmental Justice [49]
Environmental Politics [7]
Forests [31]
Journalism & Media [10]
Laws & Regulations [45]
Public [15]
International [34]
South America [50]
Source: AP [51], 05/29/2025
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"In ‘Cancer Alley,’ a Battle Over Who Gets to Measure Air Pollution" [52]

"Community groups are fighting an unusual Louisiana law that restricts how they use data from air-quality monitors, saying it violates free speech."

Activism [3]
Air [4]
Chemicals [27]
Environmental Health [17]
Environmental Justice [49]
Environmental Politics [7]
Environmental Studies [29]
Journalism & Media [10]
Laws & Regulations [45]
Pollution [12]
Science [32]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [53]
Source: NYTimes [54], 05/28/2025
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In India, Indigenous Women Make ‘Dream Maps’ To Protect Lands From Warming [55]

"At a small stream in India’s eastern state of Odisha, Indigenous villagers catch eels and fish for a dinner celebrating an annual harvest festival. The bounty of communal farming, foraging and fishing marks the start of a new season."

Activism [3]
Agriculture [25]
Climate Change [28]
Natural Resources [41]
People & Population [11]
Water & Oceans [42]
Public [15]
Asia [56]
Source: AP [57], 05/27/2025
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"Kennedy’s Allies Against Pesticides: Environmentalists, Moms and Manly Men" [58]

"An unlikely group is coalescing around the health secretary’s drive for restrictions on atrazine, which is linked to cancer, birth defects and low sperm counts."

Activism [3]
Agriculture [25]
Chemicals [27]
Consumer [5]
Environmental Health [17]
Environmental Politics [7]
Food [30]
Laws & Regulations [45]
Pollution [12]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [13]
Source: NYTimes [59], 05/21/2025
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