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"States Push To End Secrecy Over Data Center Water Use" [1]

"States facing drought and dwindling groundwater supplies are seeking to pull back the curtain on water use at data centers, in a push for transparency that has scrambled traditional partisan alliances."

Agriculture [2]
Consumer [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Environmental Studies [5]
Journalism & Media [6]
Planning & Growth [7]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: E&E News [11], 12/09/2025
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Top Environment and Energy Topics To Watch in 2026 [12]

Explore our 10th annual Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy, as we scour the beat to identify 15 top stories to put on your radar for 2026. Our updated format for the special report provides a quick read and a broad scope — with insights on climate change and environmental justice, bird and insect declines, data centers and deep sea mining, deregulation and PFAS and much more. Get started here [12].

SEJ Publication Types: 
SEJ News [13]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [14]
Agriculture [2]
Air [15]
Biodiversity [16]
Chemicals [17]
Climate Change [18]
Disasters [19]
Economy & Business [20]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [23]
Environmental Politics [4]
Environmental Studies [5]
Fish & Fisheries [24]
Forests [25]
Government [26]
Health [27]
Infrastructure [28]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Military [30]
Natural Resources [31]
Policy [32]
Pollution [33]
Science [34]
Technology [35]
Waste [36]
Water & Oceans [8]
Wildlife [37]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [10]
Alaska and Hawaii [38]
California [39]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [40]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [41]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [42]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [43]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [44]
Northwest (OR WA) [45]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [46]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [47]
International [48]
Visibility: 
Public [9]
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From Words to Frames — Writer Learns To Wield Power of Visual Storytelling [49]

When writer Gulnaz Khan saw how global warming drove both natural loss and spiritual breaks for surrounding human communities, it started her on a PBS documentary series exploring sacred sites around the world threatened by climate change. But she also undertook another odyssey, one from writer to visual storyteller. What she learned on her journey from text to screen, in the new EJ InSight column.

SEJ Publication Types: 
EJ InSight [50]
Topics on the Beat: 
Agriculture [2]
Biodiversity [16]
Climate Change [18]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Justice [23]
Food [51]
Forests [25]
Government [26]
Health [27]
Journalism & Media [6]
Natural Resources [31]
People & Population [52]
Pollution [33]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [53]
Science [34]
Waste [36]
Water & Oceans [8]
Wildlife [37]
Region: 
International [48]
Africa [54]
Asia [55]
South America [56]
Visibility: 
Public [9]
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Interior Dept Finally Releases High Official’s Financial Disclosure [57]

"After a long delay, the Interior Department’s Office of Government Ethics last week provided Public Domain the financial disclosure of Karen Budd-Falen, a high-ranking Trump appointee at DOI." "Karen Budd-Falen, a self-described “cowboy lawyer," owns ranch operations and real estate rentals. Her family has also had sizable investments in oil companies."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Politics [4]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Natural Resources [31]
Water & Oceans [8]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: Public Domain [58], 12/05/2025
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"New York Times Sues Pentagon Over First Amendment Rights" [59]

"The New York Times accused the Pentagon in a lawsuit on Thursday of infringing on the constitutional rights of journalists by imposing a set of new restrictions on reporting about the military."

Environmental Politics [4]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Military [30]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: NYTimes [60], 12/05/2025
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December 12, 2025

IJNR/SEJ Virtual Workshop: The Future of Chesapeake Bay [61]

The Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources (IJNR), in conjunction with the Society of Environmental Journalists, will conduct a virtual training program, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. EST, for professional journalists that explores the complicated past and future of the Chesapeake Bay. Registration deadline: Dec 11.

Workshops and Fellowships [62]
Visibility: 
Public [9]
Topics on the Beat: 
Journalism & Media [6]
Water & Oceans [8]
Region: 
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [42]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [44]
December 9, 2025

SEJ Webinar: Silenced Sources — When Fear of Retaliation Muzzles Facts [63]

Join Freedom of the Press Foundation, the Association of Healthcare Journalists and the Society of Environmental Journalists for this webinar at 2 p.m. EST, on what happens when whistleblowers, researchers, students and federal employees are intimidated into staying quiet.

Other Events [64]
Visibility: 
Public [9]
Topics on the Beat: 
Government [26]
Journalism & Media [6]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [10]

"Resurrected Lawsuit Puts FPL’s Past Controversies Back In The Spotlight" [65]

"An investor lawsuit accusing Florida Power & Light’s parent company, NextEra, and several current and former executives of securities fraud can move forward, a panel of federal appeals judges ruled last week in a remarkable resurrection of the case."

Economy & Business [20]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Politics [4]
Infrastructure [28]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [29]
People & Population [52]
Public [9]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [46]
Source: The Tributary [66], 12/03/2025
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Trump Admin Strips ‘Renewable’ And ‘Energy’ From NREL Laboratory Name [67]

"The Trump administration on Monday stripped the words “renewable” and “energy” from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory name, furthering White House directives to abandon clean energy sources."

Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [21]
Environmental Health [22]
Environmental Politics [4]
Journalism & Media [6]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Science [34]
Technology [35]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
Source: The Hill [68], 12/03/2025
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"How Two NASA Satellites Survived Trump’s Climate Purge" [69]

"NASA has sent two new satellites into space over the past six months to monitor many of the ways global warming is affecting the planet. Just don’t call them climate satellites."

Climate Change [18]
Environmental Politics [4]
Journalism & Media [6]
Science [34]
Public [9]
National (U.S.) [10]
International [48]
Source: E&E News [70], 12/02/2025
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