"Why Some Of Your Favorite Podcasts Are Filled With Oil Company Ads" [1]
"Exxon and other fossil fuel companies are running podcast ads that suggest they are taking aggressive climate action. Climate experts call them greenwashing".
"Exxon and other fossil fuel companies are running podcast ads that suggest they are taking aggressive climate action. Climate experts call them greenwashing".
"It has been our great privilege to bring you news from Stoneham and Woburn over the years,” read the announcement. “We regret to inform you that this will be the final edition of the Sun-Advocate newspaper.” The Massachusetts weekly, as of August, is no more."
December 3, 2021 — The Society of Environmental Journalists sent a letter today to Canada's Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino calling for an investigation into the illegal arrests of journalists Amber Bracken and Michael Toledano, and to take decisive action to end the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s (RCMP) repeated violations of journalists’ right to report.
"Mask mandates saved lives and prevented COVID-19 infections in Missouri’s biggest cities during the worst part of the delta variant wave, an analysis by the state Department of Health and Senior Services shows. But the analysis, conducted at the request of Gov. Mike Parson’s office in early November, was never made public and was only obtained by The Missouri Independent and the Documenting COVID-19 project after a Sunshine Law request to the department."
"Oil companies haven’t acted alone in deceiving the public and stopping climate action. They’ve had a major assist from some of the world’s most profitable public relations companies, a relationship that has gone largely unexamined until now."
"The EPA can shield some records regarding a former official’s role in pesticide policymaking from a conservation group, a divided Second Circuit ruled Monday. Messages between staff about how the agency should communicate its policies are protected by the deliberative process privilege, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit."
SEJ offers an extensive Climate Change Resource Guide to reporters and editors, especially those newer to the climate change beat, in order to support their coverage of this all-important topic. On this page you'll find policy and advocacy documents sorted by intergovernmental, governmental and NGO & private sector categories.
As the dust settles on COP28, climate change news abounds. So to help environmental journalists find and report stories on the beat, SEJ Publications continues to expand its growing Climate Change Resource Guide [32]. Explore dozens of new information sources in the just-added Disaster and Extreme Weather [33] section. Plus, hundreds of other topical resources and more in the overarching Guide, including on deadline reporting, local reporting, science 101s, key sources and experts, news sources, and a policy and advocacy library.
The history of environmental racism is a long one in the United States, far longer than the efforts to address the problem. But reporting on environmental justice continues to tick upwards, and an analysis in the latest Backgrounder points to promising progress, explaining why for journalists the year ahead may yield important stories, whether about future footholds or new missteps.
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/why-some-your-favorite-podcasts-are-filled-oil-company-ads
[2] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change
[3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy
[4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics
[5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media
[6] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81
[7] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national
[8] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/04/exxon-podasts-oil-company-ads-climate-crisis
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/what-happens-democracy-when-local-journalism-dries
[10] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/business
[11] https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/11/30/margaret-sullivan-the-local-news-crisis/
[12] https://www.sej.org/sej-calls-investigation-journalists-arrests-and-ongoing-rcmp-violations-journalists-right-report
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/mo-health-dept-found-mask-mandates-work-didn-t-make-findings-public
[14] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health
[15] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-justice
[16] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/great-plains
[17] https://missouriindependent.com/2021/12/01/missouri-health-department-found-mask-mandates-work-but-didnt-make-findings-public/
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/pr-firms-doing-big-oil-s-dirty-work
[19] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmentalists
[20] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/science
[21] https://gizmodo.com/the-pr-firms-doing-big-oil-s-dirty-work-1848143802
[22] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-wins-appeal-over-release-pesticide-policymaking-records
[23] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/activism
[24] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics
[25] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/government
[26] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws
[27] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution
[28] https://bnanews.bna.com/environment-and-energy/epa-wins-appeal-over-release-of-pesticide-policymaking-records
[29] https://www.sej.org/climate-guide/climate-change-policy-advocacy-library
[30] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international
[31] https://www.sej.org/climate-guide/climate-change-topics
[32] https://www.sej.org/climate-guide
[33] https://www.sej.org/climate-guide/climate-change-topics#disasters
[34] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication/sejournal
[35] https://www.sej.org/publications/backgrounders/biden-administration-struggle-environmental-justice-2022
[36] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication-types/backgrounders
[37] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/air
[38] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/diversity
[39] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/health
[40] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/infrastructure
[41] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/people-population
[42] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/cities-towns
[43] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/policy
[44] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/waste
[45] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water
[46] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/great-lakes
[47] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/mountain-west
[48] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/northeast
[49] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southeast
[50] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southwest
[51] https://www.sej.org/sejspotlight-ayurella-horn-muller-freelance-journalist
[52] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media?page=109
[53] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media?page=106
[54] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media?page=107
[55] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media?page=108
[56] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media?page=111
[57] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media?page=112
[58] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media?page=113
[59] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media?page=114
[60] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media?page=456