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July 9, 2025

Inland Flooding — Reporting Resources From SEJ Publications

With the death toll exceeding 100 from catastrophic flooding in Texas, the SEJ Publications team offers resources for flood reporting in your region. See TipSheets on inland flood risks, extreme rainfall, flood readiness, flood-resistant construction, building in flood plains and flood-related hazardous waste threats. Also, a Reporter’s Toolbox on mapping flood risk, a Feature on the inequities of flooding and a special report, Covering Your Climate: The South. Plus, get rain and flood headlines from EJToday.
Solutions — and Death — in the Rainforest

A project begun to explore ways to protect the Amazon seemed to end with the murder of the journalist who conceived it, along with his guide and research partner. But others picked up the mantle and completed a volume exploring ways to save this precious and rapidly disappearing ecosystem. BookShelf reviewer Elyse Hauser on how this unusual book tries to meet that promise.
Wildfire Smoke Is Showing Up Everywhere. It Can Be Fatal

Wildfire’s immensely destructive power is not just about what it burns. The smoke from more frequent fires, too, has real potential to harm human health, the new Backgrounder explains, releasing particulate matter, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides and worse. Learn more about the hazards and historical perspective, along with what journalists should tell their communities can be done.
Recreation in Polluted Water Can Be Threat to Human Health

A cool swim on a hot day is one of the quintessential pleasures of summer. That is, unless polluted water makes it — and any other aquatic contact — a high-risk activity. It’s an important environmental and public health story for journalists to tell. TipSheet helps review waterborne illnesses to watch for, regulations supposed to protect against them and local story ideas to pursue.

June 25, 2025

Lead Pipe Data Map Offers Sharp New Tool

Lead-contaminated drinking water has long been a widespread worry, but one big challenge has been locating the many lead service lines around the United States. The latest Reporter’s Toolbox points you to a mappable database to help address that problem, with current, detailed data filtered through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Learn more about this resource and how to best use it.
Rethinking Forest Management in the Pyrocene

Recent urban-interface infernos, fueled by climate change, leave no doubt that we have entered the age of runaway fire. Writer and ecologist Lauren Oakes writes that large-scale combustion is permanently reshaping ecosystems and societies as we learn to live with wildfire, not just fight it. Instead of perpetuating problematic approaches to forest management, experts call for confronting the root causes of this crisis and adopting science-informed responses.

June 18, 2025

Tainted Water, Tainted Power — Inside a Hog-Farm Empire

A powerful politician and his family’s groundwater-polluting agricultural business were the focus of an award-winning series that delved into the intersection of politics, power, privilege and regulatory capture. In the latest Inside Story Q&A, journalist Yanqi Xu discusses how the reporting uncovered deep and unexpected impacts on small town economies, water quality and the living conditions of the hog farms’ neighbors.
National Park Story No Walk in the Park, Post-Budget Cuts

Steep cuts for the U.S. National Park System look likely from the Trump administration, affecting visitors, roiling local businesses and raising political hackles. For environmental journalists, budgets slashed for hundreds of park units could also turn a summer standby story into something closer to disaster coverage. TipSheet has more than a dozen story ideas and reporting resources to cover the park nearest you.
Public Broadcasting Cuts Would Harm Free Press

Trump administration efforts to defund public media, now before Congress, are a misguided effort to harm a source of journalism that is highly trusted by audiences, argues the latest WatchDog Opinion column. And while public broadcasting’s diverse funding sources may insulate it from politics to some degree, the attacks do threaten to chill press freedom, including environmental reporting, more broadly. The latest Dog explains.

June 11, 2025

Battle Over Gas Power Facility Generates Months-Long Investigation

A private social media message piqued Arizona Republic reporter Joan Meiners’ interest in rural retirees’ efforts to block construction of a gas-fired peaker plant next to their homes. Her year-long, grant-funded investigation in 2024 uncovered questionable local government actions and utility executive motives, and concluded with action against the facility. Read Meiners’ account of how rural Arizonans became unlikely climate activists, in the latest FEJ Storylog.

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Latest SEJournal Issues

July 9, 2025

Inland Flooding — Reporting Resources From SEJ Publications

Solutions — and Death — in the Rainforest

Wildfire Smoke Is Showing Up Everywhere. It Can Be Fatal

Recreation in Polluted Water Can Be Threat to Human Health

June 25, 2025

Lead Pipe Data Map Offers Sharp New Tool

Rethinking Forest Management in the Pyrocene

June 18, 2025

Tainted Water, Tainted Power — Inside a Hog-Farm Empire

National Park Story No Walk in the Park, Post-Budget Cuts

Public Broadcasting Cuts Would Harm Free Press

June 11, 2025

Battle Over Gas Power Facility Generates Months-Long Investigation

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