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Gathering Offers Sobering Look Ahead at 2024, But With Glimmers of Hope [1]

Top environmental journalists and others at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual “Journalists’ Guide to Environment and Energy” program foresee some challenging realities to cover in 2024, most notably with the ongoing impacts of climate change. Bright signs emerged as well. Read our take, watch the event video [2] and visit our full “2024 Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy [3]” special report.

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Topics on the Beat: 
Air [5]
Biodiversity [6]
Chemicals [7]
Climate Change [8]
Disasters [9]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Justice [11]
Environmental Politics [12]
Fish & Fisheries [13]
Forests [14]
Health [15]
Journalism & Media [16]
Natural Resources [17]
People & Population [18]
Policy [19]
Pollution [20]
Water & Oceans [21]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [22]
Alaska and Hawaii [23]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [24]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [25]
International [26]
South America [27]
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Public [28]
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2 Enviros Targeted By A Hacking Network Say The Public Is The Real Victim [29]

"Two environmentalists told a federal judge Thursday that the public was the real victim of a global computer hacking campaign that targeted those fighting big oil companies to get the truth out about global warming."

Activism [30]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [16]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Science [32]
Public [28]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: AP [33], 11/17/2023
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"FTC Cracks Down On Food Industry For Paid Dietitian ‘Influencer’ Posts" [34]

"Federal regulators announced warnings against two major food and beverage industry groups and a dozen nutrition influencers Wednesday, as part of a broad action to enforce stricter standards for how companies and social media creators disclose paid advertising."

Consumer [35]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Food [36]
Journalism & Media [16]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Public [28]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: Washington Post [37], 11/17/2023
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"Top Companies' Lobbying Undermines Their Climate Pledges, Study Finds" [38]

"Glencore, ExxonMobil and Stellantis are among companies lobbying for policies that conflict with their own pledges to cut carbon emissions, a study published by non-profit think tank InfluenceMap on Thursday found."

Climate Change [8]
Economy & Business [39]
Environmental Politics [12]
Journalism & Media [16]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Public [28]
National (U.S.) [22]
International [26]
Source: Reuters [40], 11/17/2023
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COP28 Host UAE Has World’s Biggest Climate-Busting Oil Plans, Data Show [41]

"The state oil company of the United Arab Emirates, whose CEO will preside over imminent UN climate negotiations, has the largest net-zero-busting expansion plans of any company in the world, according to new data."

Climate Change [8]
Energy & Fuel [42]
Environmental Politics [12]
Pollution [20]
Public [28]
International [26]
Middle East [43]
Source: Guardian [44], 11/16/2023
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"U.S. and China Agree to Displace Fossil Fuels by Ramping Up Renewables" [45]

"The United States and China, the world’s two largest climate polluters, have agreed to jointly tackle global warming by ramping up wind, solar and other renewable energy with the goal of displacing fossil fuels."

Climate Change [8]
Environmental Politics [12]
Public [28]
National (U.S.) [22]
Asia [46]
Source: NYTimes [47], 11/16/2023
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"Scientists Say Health Should Be The Core Of Global Plastic Treaty" [48]

"More than 20 international scientists put forth a plan today to encourage world leaders to put human health at the center of global plastic treaty negotiations taking place this week in Nairobi, Kenya."

Chemicals [7]
Consumer [35]
Economy & Business [39]
Energy & Fuel [42]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Pollution [20]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [28]
International [26]
Source: EHN [49], 11/15/2023
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"The Coming Senate Energy, Environment Committee Shuffle" [50]

"There will be fresh Democratic faces at the top of two Senate committees that deal predominantly with energy and environmental issues next Congress, and observers hope those leaders can build on recent legislative wins."

Environmental Politics [12]
Laws & Regulations [31]
Public [28]
National (U.S.) [22]
Source: E&E News [51], 11/15/2023
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2 Grim Reports On Global Climate Highlight Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Ill Health [52]

"Humanity’s fight to curb climate change is failing in dozens of ways with people getting sicker and dying as the world warms and the fossil fuels causing it get more subsidies, according to two global reports issued Tuesday."

Climate Change [8]
Disasters [9]
Environmental Health [10]
Environmental Politics [12]
Public [28]
National (U.S.) [22]
International [26]
Source: AP [53], 11/15/2023
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Desperate For Water, Desert City Hopes To Build Pipeline To Calif. Aqueduct [54]

"After decades of unrestricted pumping in the rain-starved northwestern corner of the Mojave Desert, the Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Basin Authority has the distinction of managing one of the most critically overdrawn aquifers in California."

Agriculture [55]
Environmental Politics [12]
Military [56]
Natural Resources [17]
Water & Oceans [21]
Public [28]
California [57]
Source: LA Times [58], 11/14/2023
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