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"Outdoor Afro: Celebrating Black Joy in Nature" [1]

"Black people like nature, too. But you wouldn’t know it from looking at outdoor magazines — at least not before Outdoor Afro got started."

Activism [2]
Consumer [3]
Diversity [4]
Environmental Justice [5]
Journalism & Media [6]
Natural Resources [7]
People & Population [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: The Revelator [11], 11/17/2022

"US Offshore Wind Energy Industry Faces Blowback From Locals" [12]

"It’s just one cable meant to bring electricity from an offshore wind farm to a former coal-burning power plant in southern New Jersey, but it symbolizes a big challenge facing the renewable energy industry."

Activism [2]
Climate Change [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Infrastructure [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Water & Oceans [17]
Public [9]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [18]
Source: AP [19], 11/16/2022

Journalism Industry Program Supports Reporting on Workers — and Work — in a Warming World [20]

As the economic impacts of climate change intensify, reporting on how individuals are affected, particularly in the Global South, is lagging. Veteran journalist Christine Spolar at The Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting details a new initiative to encourage journalists to fill this gap. The story of recent grantees Bhasker Tripathi and Susan Schulman, who have tracked job losses and migrations tied to climate change in India and Iraq.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Features [21]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [2]
Agriculture [22]
Climate Change [13]
Disasters [23]
Economy & Business [24]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [14]
Food [25]
Government [26]
Health [27]
Journalism & Media [6]
People & Population [8]
Policy [28]
Technology [29]
Water & Oceans [17]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [10]
International [30]
Africa [31]
Asia [32]
Middle East [33]
Visibility: 
Public [9]

Renewables on the Rise Dashboard [34]

[34]

Journalists can use this online tool from Environment America and PIRG to track the growth of clean energy state-by-state for wind and solar energy; electric vehicle sales and charging ports; energy savings; and battery storage capacity. Data sources and methodology are provided.

Useful Links [35]
Visibility: 
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Activism [2]

"UN Probes Egypt Police Misconduct Claims At Climate Talks" [36]

"The United Nations says it is investigating allegations of misconduct by Egyptian police officers providing security at this year’s international climate talks."

Activism [2]
Climate Change [13]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [6]
Military [37]
Public [9]
International [30]
Middle East [33]
Source: AP [38], 11/14/2022

"Egypt Crushes at Home the Climate Action It’s Championing Abroad" [39]

"The road to COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh has been strewn with hurdles for global climate crisis activists, but Egyptian advocates have it worse".

Activism [2]
Climate Change [13]
Environmental Justice [5]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [6]
Public [9]
International [30]
Source: Bloomberg Green [40], 11/04/2022

"How Climate Lawsuits Could Sharpen Cop27 Loss And Damage Talks" [41]

"If international solidarity with climate victims falls short, litigation offers a vital but imperfect avenue for compensation".

Activism [2]
Climate Change [13]
Environmental Justice [5]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [9]
International [30]
Source: Climate Home News [42], 11/03/2022

Egyptian Regime Criticized As Climate Activist Arrested Before Cop27 [43]

"Concern over country’s human rights record after Indian Ajit Rajagopal arrested on walk to raise awareness about climate crisis"

Activism [2]
Climate Change [13]
Pollution [44]
Public [9]
Africa [31]
Source: Guardian [45], 11/03/2022

"2/3 of US Money For Fossil Fuel Pours Into Africa Despite Climate Goals" [46]

"Joe Biden will head to Egypt next week to tout America’s re-emergence as a leader on the climate crisis at the Cop27 talks. But he will be landing in a continent that the US continues to pour billions of dollars into for fossil fuel projects, with seemingly no end in sight despite the president’s promises."

Activism [2]
Climate Change [13]
Economy & Business [24]
Energy & Fuel [47]
Environmental Politics [14]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
International [30]
Source: Guardian [48], 11/01/2022

ESA Inaction Spells Trouble for an Iconic Grassland Bird [49]

The lesser prairie-chicken is in dire need of protection, but a decision on listing it under the Endangered Species Act is months overdue. Environmental reporter Mike Smith looks at the causes and potential consequences of the bureaucratic delay and muses on whether this unique bird will go the way of its even more imperiled relative, the Attwater’s prairie-chicken [50].

SEJ Publication Types: 
Features [21]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [2]
Agriculture [22]
Biodiversity [51]
Economy & Business [24]
Energy & Fuel [47]
Environmental Politics [14]
Government [26]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Natural Resources [7]
Policy [28]
Science [52]
Wildlife [53]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [10]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [54]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [55]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [56]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [57]
Visibility: 
Public [9]

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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/outdoor-afro-celebrating-black-joy-nature [2] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/activism [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/consumer [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/diversity [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-justice [6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media [7] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/land [8] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/people-population [9] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81 [10] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [11] https://therevelator.org/outdoor-afro/ [12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-offshore-wind-energy-industry-faces-blowback-locals [13] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change [14] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics [15] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/infrastructure [16] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws [17] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water [18] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/northeast [19] https://apnews.com/article/business-new-jersey-wind-power-energy-industry-climate-and-environment-8cd2f697f8d53e4a979bf7359ab6b29a [20] https://www.sej.org/publications/features/journalism-industry-program-supports-reporting-workers-and-work-warming-world [21] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication-types/features [22] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/agriculture [23] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster [24] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/business [25] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/food [26] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/government [27] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/health [28] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/policy [29] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/technology [30] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international [31] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/africa [32] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/asia [33] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/middle-east [34] https://www.sej.org/library/renewables-rise-dashboard [35] https://www.sej.org/category/library/useful-links [36] https://www.sej.org/headlines/un-probes-egypt-police-misconduct-claims-climate-talks [37] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/military [38] https://apnews.com/article/police-united-nations-climate-and-environment-government-politics-d56ac86ef48008c38f38b64ea823b075 [39] https://www.sej.org/headlines/egypt-crushes-home-climate-action-it-s-championing-abroad [40] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-03/cop27-host-egypt-crushes-climate-crisis-activism-at-home-it-champions-abroad?srnd=green [41] https://www.sej.org/headlines/how-climate-lawsuits-could-sharpen-cop27-loss-and-damage-talks [42] https://www.climatechangenews.com/2022/11/02/see-you-in-court-how-climate-lawsuits-could-sharpen-cop27-loss-and-damage-talks/ [43] https://www.sej.org/headlines/egyptian-regime-criticized-climate-activist-arrested-cop27 [44] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution [45] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/02/egypt-human-rights-climate-crisis-cop27 [46] https://www.sej.org/headlines/23-us-money-fossil-fuel-pours-africa-despite-climate-goals [47] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy [48] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/31/two-thirds-of-us-money-for-fossil-fuel-pours-into-africa-despite-climate-goals [49] https://www.sej.org/publications/features/esa-inaction-spells-trouble-iconic-grassland-bird [50] https://www.sej.org/publications/features/esa-inaction-spells-trouble-iconic-grassland-bird#sidebar [51] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/biodiversity-1 [52] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/science [53] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/wildlife [54] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/great-plains [55] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/mountain-west [56] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast [57] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southwest [58] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/activism?page=63 [59] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/activism?page=60 [60] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/activism?page=61 [61] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/activism?page=62 [62] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/activism?page=65 [63] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/activism?page=66 [64] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/activism?page=67 [65] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/activism?page=68 [66] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/activism?page=205