Top Environmental Justice Stories From SEJournal

Updated March 2025

EJ TransitionWatch

• What Will a Second Trump Term Mean for Environmental Justice? [2]

Voices of Environmental Justice

• Communities at Risk Are Climate Stories Too [3]
• Future of Justice40 Program Hangs in Balance [4]
• Climate Crisis Makes for Real Fashion Emergency [5]
• What’s Ahead on Climate Justice, Climate Crisis Beat [6]
• To Cover Climate Equity Well, Journalists Must Maintain Mental Health [7]
• The Community We’ve Long Ignored [8]

TipSheets & Toolboxes

• When Disasters Hit, Nursing Homes Can Be Disasters Waiting To Happen [9]
• Looking for Environmental Justice Through the Smog [10]
• New Climate Vulnerability Index Made for Local, Regional Stories [11]
• Funding Initiative May Help Surface Overlooked Environmental Justice Stories [12]
• New Environmental Justice Index Helps ID Vulnerable Communities [13]
• Environmental Justice Beat Gets Boost From New Database [14]

Features

• Reporting on Environmental Solutions and Equity — at a Watershed Scale [15]
• Disabilities and Disasters — What Questions Should You Be Asking Planners? [16]
• Covering Indigenous Communities — Tips for Non-Native Journalists [17]
• Exploring the Impacts of Hydroelectric Megaprojects on Indigenous Lands [18]
• Collaborative Journalism Project Reveals Inequities in Escaping Climate Change Hazards [19]
• Journalism Industry Program Supports Reporting on Workers — and Work — in a Warming World [20]
• Native Tribal Nations Push for Changes in Public Lands [21]

Special Report: Covering Climate Solutions

• Environmental Reporting Through an Indigenous Perspective [22]
• Toolbox on Nature-Based Solutions and Native/Indigenous Perspectives [23]
• SEJ Webinar: Covering Climate Solutions — Indigenous Communities and Nature-Based Approaches [24]

Backgrounders

• How Climate Change Complicates the Refugee Crisis [25]
• Finding Native People at Heart of Environment Beat [26]

Inside Story Q&As and FEJ StoryLog

• ‘A Myriad of Voices’ Tells of Restoring a Swamp in Crisis [27]
• Award-Winning Beat Reporting Highlights Legacy of Environmental Racism [28]
• Beat Reporter’s Coverage Calls Out Natural Gas Proponents [29]
• Investigation Into Dry Oil Wells Reveals High Risks, Costs to Nearby Neighborhoods [30]
• Two Communities, Two Hazards and the Two Award-Winners Reporting Them [31]
• Reporting on Poor, Kids Sickened by Industrial Air Pollution [32]
• Grant Prompts Improved Coverage of Indigenous Perspectives at Bears Ears [33]

SEJ News

• ​​Webinar Offers Insight Into Complexities of Environmental Justice Reporting [34]

BookShelf

• ‘Carbon Colonialism’ Details the Exporting of Degradation, Climate Collapse [35]
• How a Distant Chapter in Spice Trade Foretells Today’s Climate Chaos [36]
• Following Nature on a Transformative Journey Away From the Mean Streets of D.C. [37]
• Environmental Journalist Recounts His Historical Slave-Era Find [38]
• “Environment, Social Justice, and the Media in the Age of the Anthropocene” [39]

 

All Enviro Justice Stories From SEJournal [40] All Enviro Justice Headlines From EJToday [41]

Return to Topics on the Beat main page [42]