The 2023 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment

In this special report, “2023 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment,” the SEJournal looks ahead to key issues in the coming year. Check out the guide’s special, forward-focused TipSheets and Backgrounders. We’ve also supplemented this year’s guide with a special look at environmental issues in the Cascadia bioregion. Also see an overview analysis and reporting from the Society of Environmental Journalists' Feb. 9 year-ahead roundtable.

Overview Analysis

• Epic Struggles Ahead in 2023 on Energy Transition, Pollution

Year-Ahead Panel

• SEJ Panel Gauges Issues in the Works in the U.S. West
• #2023 Issues Panel — Details and Video Recording for Feb. 9 Webinar

Special TipSheet — Cascadia Look-Ahead

• Cascadia Bioregion Rife With Energy, Environment Troubles To Report in 2023

Special TipSheets

• Particulate Air Pollution — An Old Story Made Newer, and More Local, in 2023
• Bringing the Climate Crisis Story Home in 2023
• As Concern Over Methane Mounts, Emission Controls Yield Stories
• Coal Ash — An Overlooked Toxic Story That Won’t Go Away
• Extreme Rainfall Offers Journalists a Deluge of Environment, Climate Stories
• Biodiversity Could Be Bee’s Knees for Environmental Journalists

Plus, more forward-looking TipSheets:

• Air Conditioner HFCs Are on the Way Out — The Kigali Amendment Explained
• Burgeoning National EV Trend Helps Drive Local Environment, Climate Stories

Issue Backgrounders

• Whither the Permitting Reform Bill in 2023?
• Disinformation Presents New Challenges to Environmental Journalists
• EPA To Propose Plan Soon for First PFAS Drinking Water Rule

Plus, more forward-looking Backgrounders:

• COP 27 Egypt — From Afar, How UN Meeting Will Affect Climate Change Reporting
• WTO Deal on Fishing Subsidies May Reduce Ocean Overfishing