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"Interior Dept. Report on Drilling Is Mostly Silent on Climate Change" [1]

"The department recommended higher fees for oil and gas leases, but there was no sign the government planned to take global warming into account when weighing new applications."

Climate Change [2]
Economy & Business [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Natural Resources [9]
Pollution [10]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: NYTimes [13], 11/29/2021
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Climate Change Policy & Advocacy Library [14]

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.

Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [2]
Journalism & Media [15]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [12]
International [16]
Visibility: 
Public [11]
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Climate Change Topics [17]

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 [18]. Explore dozens of new information sources in the just-added Disaster and Extreme Weather [19] 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.

SEJ Publication Types: 
SEJournal Online [20]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [2]
Journalism & Media [15]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [12]
International [16]
Visibility: 
Public [11]
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Topic on the Beat: Environmental Justice [21]

Here's a list of top environmental justice stories from SEJournal.

Topics on the Beat: 
Environmental Justice [6]
Visibility: 
Public [11]
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Biden Administration To Struggle With Environmental Justice in 2022 [22]

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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Backgrounders [23]
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Activism [24]
Air [25]
Climate Change [2]
Diversity [26]
Environmental Justice [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Government [27]
Health [28]
Infrastructure [29]
Journalism & Media [15]
Laws & Regulations [8]
People & Population [30]
Planning & Growth [31]
Policy [32]
Pollution [10]
Waste [33]
Water & Oceans [34]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [12]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [35]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [36]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [37]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [38]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [39]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [40]
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Public [11]
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December 6, 2021

Barbara Ward Lecture 2021: Outstanding Woman in Development [41]

Join the International Institute for Environment and Development in person or online for a lecture by Rebeca Grynspan (pictured, left), the secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, to discuss "Costa Rica’s journey to global climate leadership – what can we learn from a good example?" 1:30 p.m. ET.

Other Events [42]
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Public [11]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [2]
Government [27]
Policy [32]
Region: 
International [16]
Europe [43]

#SEJSpotlight: Ayurella Horn-Muller, Freelance Journalist [44]

Meet SEJ member Ayurella Horn-Muller! Ayurella is an award-winning freelance journalist and a correspondent at news and research nonprofit Climate Central.

Topics on the Beat: 
Journalism & Media [15]
Visibility: 
Public [11]
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"These Americans Are Just Going Around in Circles. It Helps the Climate." [45]

"CARMEL, Ind. — It’s getting harder and harder to run a stoplight here, because there are fewer and fewer of them around. Every year, at intersections throughout this thriving city, traffic lights and stop signs have disappeared, replaced with roundabouts. Lots and lots of roundabouts."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Infrastructure [29]
Pollution [10]
Transportation [46]
Public [11]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [35]
Source: NYTimes [47], 11/24/2021
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20+ People Sickened By Sewage-Tainted Oysters After Md. Failed To Warn [48]

"When Chesapeake Bay oysters and other shellfish become contaminated with sewage or other pollution, Maryland environmental officials normally alert the public before any are harvested or eaten. But that didn’t happen after a recent sewage spill in Southern Maryland — and at least two dozen people became ill."

Consumer [49]
Environmental Health [5]
Fish & Fisheries [50]
Food [51]
Pollution [10]
Water & Oceans [34]
Public [11]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [52]
Source: Baltimore Sun [53], 11/24/2021
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"Giant Pipeline In U.S. Midwest Tests Future Of Carbon Capture" [54]

"Dan Tronchetti received a letter in August that alarmed him: Summit Carbon Solutions, a company he'd never heard of, wanted his permission to conduct survey work for a 2,000-mile pipeline it planned to route through his Iowa corn and soybean fields."

Climate Change [2]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Politics [7]
Transportation [46]
Public [11]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Reuters [55], 11/24/2021
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