Topic on the Beat: Environmental Justice [1]
Top Environmental Justice Stories From SEJournal
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Updated September 2026
Voices of Environmental Justice
- Unpacking Puerto Rico’s Water Crisis [2]
- Why the Loss of Voting Rights Is a Climate Crisis [3]
- Why the Silencing of Protest Matters [4]
- Solutions Stories a Compass for Readers [5]
- Tapping Into COP30 To Cover Indigenous Issues [6]
- ‘People Will Die’ — Stories Behind Trump Budget Bill [7]
- In West Bank, Hope for Future in Link Between Land and People [8]
- Communities at Risk Are Climate Stories Too [9]
- Future of Justice40 Program Hangs in Balance [10]
- Climate Crisis Makes for Real Fashion Emergency [11]
- What’s Ahead on Climate Justice, Climate Crisis Beat [12]
- To Cover Climate Equity Well, Journalists Must Maintain Mental Health [13]
- The Community We’ve Long Ignored [14]
Features
- Closing the Trust Gap With Environmental Justice Communities [15]
- Queer Ecology — A Powerful Lens for Reporting on Environmental Injustice [16]
- Reporting on Environmental Solutions and Equity — at a Watershed Scale [17]
- Disabilities and Disasters — What Questions Should You Be Asking Planners? [18]
- Covering Indigenous Communities — Tips for Non-Native Journalists [19]
- Exploring the Impacts of Hydroelectric Megaprojects on Indigenous Lands [20]
- Collaborative Journalism Project Reveals Inequities in Escaping Climate Change Hazards [21]
- Journalism Industry Program Supports Reporting on Workers — and Work — in a Warming World [22]
- Native Tribal Nations Push for Changes in Public Lands [23]
Inside Story Q&As and FEJ StoryLog
- Climate Solutions, for Some, May Not Be [24]
- ‘Misplaced Trust’ Aims Big, But Finds Details Make the Difference [25]
- ‘A Myriad of Voices’ Tells of Restoring a Swamp in Crisis [26]
- Award-Winning Beat Reporting Highlights Legacy of Environmental Racism [27]
- Beat Reporter’s Coverage Calls Out Natural Gas Proponents [28]
- Investigation Into Dry Oil Wells Reveals High Risks, Costs to Nearby Neighborhoods [29]
- Two Communities, Two Hazards and the Two Award-Winners Reporting Them [30]
- Reporting on Poor, Kids Sickened by Industrial Air Pollution [31]
- Grant Prompts Improved Coverage of Indigenous Perspectives at Bears Ears [32]
TipSheets & Toolboxes
- Find Environmental Justice Stories With Grants Data [33]
- Environmental Justice Grants Disappear. Environmental Injustice Does Not [34]
- When Disasters Hit, Nursing Homes Can Be Disasters Waiting To Happen [35]
- Looking for Environmental Justice Through the Smog [36]
- New Climate Vulnerability Index Made for Local, Regional Stories [37]
- Funding Initiative May Help Surface Overlooked Environmental Justice Stories [38]
- New Environmental Justice Index Helps ID Vulnerable Communities [39]
- Environmental Justice Beat Gets Boost From New Database [40]
Backgrounders
- How Climate Change Complicates the Refugee Crisis [41]
- Finding Native People at Heart of Environment Beat [42]
BookShelf
- Between the Lines — Writing Nature Through Illness and Disability [43]
- ‘Carbon Colonialism’ Details the Exporting of Degradation, Climate Collapse [44]
- How a Distant Chapter in Spice Trade Foretells Today’s Climate Chaos [45]
- Following Nature on a Transformative Journey Away From the Mean Streets of D.C. [46]
- Environmental Journalist Recounts His Historical Slave-Era Find [47]
- “Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of the Anthropocene” [48]
EJ TransitionWatch
SEJ News
Special Report: Covering Climate Solutions
- Environmental Reporting Through an Indigenous Perspective [51]
- Toolbox on Nature-Based Solutions and Native/Indigenous Perspectives [52]
- SEJ Webinar: Covering Climate Solutions — Indigenous Communities and Nature-Based Approaches [53]
All Enviro Justice Stories From SEJournal [54] All Enviro Justice Headlines From EJToday [55]
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