"The Trump administration is weighing how to take control of water in California — including setting aside endangered species protections — framing its mission in a new executive order as necessary to prevent future wildfires like those that recently swept across Los Angeles."
The winner of the 2024 Nina Mason Pulliam Award is "Misplaced Trust" by Tristan Ahtone, Clayton Aldern, Marcelle Bonterre, Eliseu Cavalcante, An Garagiola, Audrianna Goodwin, Robert Lee, Maria Parazo Rose, Amanda Tachine, Bean Yazzie and Parker Ziegler for Grist. Honorable mention goes to a Reuters team for "The Bat Lands," a five-part multimedia investigative report.
Meet SEJ member Amber X. Chen! Amber is a freelance journalist and a student writing fellow at The Nation focusing on climate change. She is also a student at the University of California, Berkeley. She covers the climate and environment, with a focus on environmental justice and the intersection of climate change and politics.
Glory Mushinge is an award-winning freelance journalist from Zambia, who writes about a host of environmental, technological, developmental, governance and human rights issues. You can help SEJ support journalists like Glory by giving to SEJ programs, Fund for Environmental Journalism, conference travel stipends, members-in-need fund or creating a legacy with a free will.
"Over the past century, the biodiversity of apple trees has declined sharply in the United States. Monoculture orchards have erased the mature forested orchards that once served as habitat for dozens of bird species such as bluebirds, northern flickers, and scarlet tanagers. There once were some 16,000 named apple varieties in the US alone. We’ve now lost more than half of those varieties, with only 3,000 remaining."
"US environmental regulators are planning to change allowable levels of a weedkiller linked with reproductive health problems to a concentration critics say discounts years of documented health and environmental risks — potentially marking a new battlefront within the Trump administration."
"Here's what you need to know about toxic fallout from a major wildfire"
"The latest data from the CDC and USDA show the continued devastating effects of bird flu outbreaks across the United States – with Iowa, the nation's leading egg producer, suffering substantial losses."
"The decision opens the door for new ways to manage uranium pollution on tribal land"
"A yearslong U.S. Justice Department investigation of a global hacking campaign that targeted prominent American climate activists took a turn in a London court this week amid an allegation that the hacking was ordered by a lobbying firm working for ExxonMobil. Both the lobbying firm and ExxonMobil have denied any awareness of or involvement with alleged hacking."
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