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#SEJ2022 Annual Conference, Houston, TX, March 30-April 3

Registration is open for SEJ's 31st Annual Conference in Houston, hosted by Rice University. The #SEJ2022 conference will focus on environmental health and justice, energy and climate change, and oceans and coasts. Check out the agenda and register soon for early-bird pricing (extended to Jan 31) and to get your choice of our all-day Wednesday workshops and Thursday tours.
#SEJ2022 Diversity Fellowships available — apply by Feb 4!

SEJ's Environmental Events Calendar: Featured Event

Our Calendar lists professional meetings, press conferences, awards/fellowships/workshops deadlines and more. Jan 26, 2022: Join the U.S. EPA's New Superfund Redevelopment Mapper Tool and Training Webinar to learn about this interactive tool that provides information related to reuse and redevelopment on and near Superfund sites. 1:00-3:00 p.m. ET.

Deep in the Heart of Complexity … Or, the View From Texas

As the Society of Environmental Journalists prepares for its annual conference in Houston this March, the SEJournal asked Texas-based reporter Greg Harman to explore the Lone Star State's most critical stories for 2022. Here, in this special Texas-focused TipSheet, are leads, resources, encouragements and challenges.

#SEJSpotlight on Members

Meet SEJ member and volunteer Parimal Rohit! Parimal, a veteran journalist, is currently the Commercial Real Estate Reporter at Austin Business Journal and is the host of three podcasts. For SEJ, he serves on the Awards committee, co-edits SEJournal's Inside Story and is editing an upcoming package on Southwest U.S. climate change. Want SEJ to promote your work to our social media followers? Here's how.

SEJ Publication Highlights

Infrastructure Funding Coming Soon for Cleanup of Orphan Oil Wells

01/19/2022 – With billions of infrastructure dollars now on the table to clean up orphan oil wells, states are already elbowing their way in for a taste. But as our new Backgrounder explains, the process to ensure they cannot pollute the environment or spew climate-change gasses is a complex one. And the sheer (and largely unknown) number of orphaned wells adds to the complications.

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Conflict Over Biden’s Offshore Wind Drive To Generate News in 2022 and Beyond

01/19/2022 – Offshore wind, which some see as a panacea in the search for climate-friendly energy solutions, is getting a push from the Biden administration. But as noted in this week’s TipSheet, part of our 2022 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment, there are numerous obstacles to the renewable power source, whether from states, coastal property owners and towns, fishing industry and even some environmentalists.

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Grantee Suits Up To Ask If Honeybees Harm Native Species

01/12/2022 – When Colorado-based freelance journalist Jennifer Oldham suited up in protective gear to investigate if commercial honeybee hives on public lands impact native bee populations, as well as to meet with federal scientists and visit a bee study site, it was a Fund for Environmental Journalism grant that helped her do it. Oldham shares her experience and advice in the latest FEJ StoryLog.

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"Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air."

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

EJToday: Headlines

"‘Build Back Better’ Hit a Wall, but Climate Action Could Move Forward"

NYTimes, 01/21/2022
VP Harris To Announce Wildfire Money In Visit To California On Friday

LA Times, 01/21/2022
New Research Shows Health Risks to Children Mount as Temperatures Rise

NYTimes, 01/21/2022
"White House Tees Up Historic $1B Everglades Funding"

E&E News, 01/21/2022
"A Dam in Syria Was on a ‘No-Strike’ List. The U.S. Bombed It Anyway."

NYTimes, 01/21/2022
"Peru: 21 Beaches Polluted By Spill Linked To Tonga Eruption"

AP, 01/21/2022
Iowa, Texas GOPers Brag on Biden Infrastructure Bill They Opposed

Washington Post, 01/21/2022
Report IDs Big Box Stores as Opportunity for Rooftop Solar

Washington Post, 01/21/2022
"Bipartisan Lawmakers Announce Climate Adaptation Bill"

The Hill, 01/21/2022
Explorers Discover Pristine Coral Reef That Could Hold Climate Lessons

Washington Post, 01/21/2022

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