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Topic on the Beat: Environmental Justice [1]

Top Environmental Justice Stories From SEJournal

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Updated November 2025

    Voices of Environmental Justice

    • Tapping Into COP30 To Cover Indigenous Issues [2]
    • ‘People Will Die’ — Stories Behind Trump Budget Bill [3]
    • In West Bank, Hope for Future in Link Between Land and People [4]
    • Communities at Risk Are Climate Stories Too [5]
    • Future of Justice40 Program Hangs in Balance [6]
    • Climate Crisis Makes for Real Fashion Emergency [7]
    • What’s Ahead on Climate Justice, Climate Crisis Beat [8]
    • To Cover Climate Equity Well, Journalists Must Maintain Mental Health [9]
    • The Community We’ve Long Ignored [10]

    EJ TransitionWatch

    • What Will a Second Trump Term Mean for Environmental Justice? [11]

    TipSheets & Toolboxes

    • Find Environmental Justice Stories With Grants Data [12]
    • Environmental Justice Grants Disappear. Environmental Injustice Does Not [13]
    • When Disasters Hit, Nursing Homes Can Be Disasters Waiting To Happen [14]
    • Looking for Environmental Justice Through the Smog [15]
    • New Climate Vulnerability Index Made for Local, Regional Stories [16]
    • Funding Initiative May Help Surface Overlooked Environmental Justice Stories [17]
    • New Environmental Justice Index Helps ID Vulnerable Communities [18]
    • Environmental Justice Beat Gets Boost From New Database [19]

    Features

    • Queer Ecology — A Powerful Lens for Reporting on Environmental Injustice [20]
    • Reporting on Environmental Solutions and Equity — at a Watershed Scale [21]
    • Disabilities and Disasters — What Questions Should You Be Asking Planners? [22]
    • Covering Indigenous Communities — Tips for Non-Native Journalists [23]
    • Exploring the Impacts of Hydroelectric Megaprojects on Indigenous Lands [24]
    • Collaborative Journalism Project Reveals Inequities in Escaping Climate Change Hazards [25]
    • Journalism Industry Program Supports Reporting on Workers — and Work — in a Warming World [26]
    • Native Tribal Nations Push for Changes in Public Lands [27]

    Backgrounders

    • How Climate Change Complicates the Refugee Crisis [28]
    • Finding Native People at Heart of Environment Beat [29]

    Inside Story Q&As and FEJ StoryLog

    • Climate Solutions, for Some, May Not Be [30]
    • ‘Misplaced Trust’ Aims Big, But Finds Details Make the Difference [31]
    • ‘A Myriad of Voices’ Tells of Restoring a Swamp in Crisis [32]
    • Award-Winning Beat Reporting Highlights Legacy of Environmental Racism [33]
    • Beat Reporter’s Coverage Calls Out Natural Gas Proponents [34]
    • Investigation Into Dry Oil Wells Reveals High Risks, Costs to Nearby Neighborhoods [35]
    • Two Communities, Two Hazards and the Two Award-Winners Reporting Them [36]
    • Reporting on Poor, Kids Sickened by Industrial Air Pollution [37]
    • Grant Prompts Improved Coverage of Indigenous Perspectives at Bears Ears [38]

    SEJ News

    • ​​Webinar Offers Insight Into Complexities of Environmental Justice Reporting [39]

    BookShelf

    • ‘Carbon Colonialism’ Details the Exporting of Degradation, Climate Collapse [40]
    • How a Distant Chapter in Spice Trade Foretells Today’s Climate Chaos [41]
    • Following Nature on a Transformative Journey Away From the Mean Streets of D.C. [42]
    • Environmental Journalist Recounts His Historical Slave-Era Find [43]
    • “Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of the Anthropocene” [44]

    Special Report: Covering Climate Solutions

    • Environmental Reporting Through an Indigenous Perspective [45]
    • Toolbox on Nature-Based Solutions and Native/Indigenous Perspectives [46]
    • SEJ Webinar: Covering Climate Solutions — Indigenous Communities and Nature-Based Approaches [47]

    All Enviro Justice Stories From SEJournal [48] All Enviro Justice Headlines From EJToday [49]

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    [1] https://www.sej.org/topic-beat-environmental-justice [2] https://www.sej.org/publications/voices-environmental-justice/tapping-cop30-cover-indigenous-issues [3] https://www.sej.org/publications/voices-environmental-justice/people-will-die-stories-behind-trump-budget-bill [4] https://www.sej.org/publications/voices-environmental-justice/west-bank-hope-future-link-between-land-and-people [5] https://www.sej.org/publications/voices-environmental-justice/communities-risk-are-climate-stories-too [6] https://www.sej.org/publications/voices-environmental-justice/future-justice40-program-hangs-balance [7] https://www.sej.org/publications/voices-environmental-justice/climate-crisis-makes-real-fashion-emergency [8] https://www.sej.org/publications/voices-environmental-justice/what-s-ahead-climate-justice-climate-crisis-beat [9] https://www.sej.org/publications/voices-environmental-justice/cover-climate-equity-well-journalists-must-maintain-mental [10] https://www.sej.org/publications/voices-environmental-justice/community-we-ve-long-ignored [11] https://www.sej.org/publications/ej-transitionwatch/what-will-second-trump-term-mean-environmental-justice [12] https://www.sej.org/publications/reporters-toolbox/find-environmental-justice-stories-grants-data [13] https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/environmental-justice-grants-disappear-environmental-injustice-does-not [14] https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/when-disasters-hit-nursing-homes-can-be-disasters-waiting-happen [15] https://www.sej.org/publications/reporters-toolbox/looking-environmental-justice-through-smog [16] https://www.sej.org/publications/reporters-toolbox/new-climate-vulnerability-index-made-local-regional-stories [17] https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/funding-initiative-may-help-surface-overlooked-environmental-justice-stories [18] https://www.sej.org/publications/reporters-toolbox/new-environmental-justice-index-helps-id-vulnerable-communities [19] https://www.sej.org/publications/reporters-toolbox/environmental-justice-beat-gets-boost-new-database [20] https://www.sej.org/publications/features/queer-ecology-powerful-lens-reporting-environmental-injustice [21] https://www.sej.org/publications/features/reporting-environmental-solutions-and-equity-watershed-scale [22] https://www.sej.org/publications/features/disabilities-and-disasters-what-questions-should-you-be-asking-planners [23] https://www.sej.org/publications/features/covering-indigenous-communities-tips-non-native-journalists [24] https://www.sej.org/publications/features/exploring-impacts-hydroelectric-megaprojects-indigenous-lands [25] https://www.sej.org/publications/features/collaborative-journalism-project-reveals-inequities-escaping-climate-change [26] https://www.sej.org/publications/features/journalism-industry-program-supports-reporting-workers-and-work-warming-world [27] https://www.sej.org/publications/features/native-tribal-nations-push-changes-public-lands [28] https://www.sej.org/publications/backgrounders/how-climate-change-complicates-refugee-crisis [29] https://www.sej.org/publications/backgrounders/finding-native-people-heart-environment-beat [30] https://www.sej.org/publications/fej-storylog/climate-solutions-some-may-not-be [31] https://www.sej.org/publications/inside-story/misplaced-trust-aims-big-finds-details-make-difference [32] https://www.sej.org/publications/inside-story/myriad-voices-tells-restoring-swamp-crisis [33] https://www.sej.org/publications/inside-story/award-winning-beat-reporting-highlights-legacy-environmental-racism [34] https://www.sej.org/publications/inside-story/beat-reporter-s-coverage-calls-out-natural-gas-proponents [35] https://www.sej.org/publications/inside-story/investigation-dry-oil-wells-reveals-high-risks-costs-nearby-neighborhoods [36] https://www.sej.org/publications/inside-story/two-communities-two-hazards-and-two-award-winners-reporting-them [37] https://www.sej.org/publications/inside-story/reporting-poor-kids-sickened-industrial-air-pollution [38] https://www.sej.org/publications/fej-storylog/grant-prompts-improved-coverage-indigenous-perspectives-bears-ears [39] https://www.sej.org/publications/sej-news/webinar-offers-insight-complexities-environmental-justice-reporting [40] https://www.sej.org/publications/bookshelf/carbon-colonialism-details-exporting-degradation-climate-collapse [41] https://www.sej.org/publications/bookshelf/how-distant-chapter-spice-trade-foretells-today-s-climate-chaos [42] https://www.sej.org/publications/bookshelf/following-nature-transformative-journey-away-mean-streets-dc [43] https://www.sej.org/publications/bookshelf/environmental-journalist-recounts-his-historical-slave-era-find [44] https://www.sej.org/publications/bookshelf/environment-social-justice-and-media-age-anthropocene [45] https://www.sej.org/publications/special-reports/climate-solutions/environmental-reporting-through-indigenous-perspective [46] https://www.sej.org/publications/special-reports/climate-solutions/nature-based-and-indigenous-peoples-toolbox [47] https://www.sej.org/calendar/sej-webinar-covering-climate-solutions-indigenous-communities-nature-based-approaches [48] https://www.sej.org/search/node/%22environmental%20justice%22%20type%3Apublication_item [49] https://www.sej.org/search/node/%22environmental%20justice%22%20type%3Aheadline [50] https://www.sej.org/topics-on-the-beat [51] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-justice [52] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81