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October 30, 2024
In this special report, “2025 Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy,” the SEJournal looks ahead in our ninth annual guide to key issues in the coming year. Check out the guide’s special forward-focused TipSheets, Backgrounders, WatchDogs, a new EJ TransitionWatch column and more. Plus, watch in the coming weeks for additional entries and, in the new year, an overview analysis and a report from the Society of Environmental Journalists' year-ahead event in Washington, D.C. in late January.
EJ TransitionWatch
- Will Trump ‘Disappear’ Environment, Climate Data?
- Is Fluoride Facing Phaseout in Your Community’s Drinking Water?
Special TipSheets
- Will Your Local Dam Turn Deadly in the Next Big Storm?
- Could Beef Be the Route to a Bird Flu Pandemic?
- What Makes Communities More Survivable in Extreme Heat Events?
- Is Your Community Ready for Tornadoes? Are You?
Plus, more forward-looking TipSheets:
- Sewage Sludge Can Spread the Harm of Many Toxic Chemicals
- Extreme Heat Changes Landscape for Summer Recreation Stories
- New PFAS Drinking Water Rule Promises Local Stories
Issue Backgrounders
- What Would Trump 2.0 Mean for the Environment?
- How Climate Change Complicates the Refugee Crisis
- Will the Coming Plastics Treaty Solve the Problem Or Enshrine It?
- Does Kamala Harris Have a Green Streak?
Plus, more forward-looking Backgrounders:
- The EPA’s Power Plant Rule … We’ll See You in Court
- EV Charging Stations — Are They There Yet?
- LNG To Fuel Conflict, Profit, Warming in Coming Years
WatchDog Opinion
- Attention Press Officers — Read This Reporter’s Bill of Rights
- What Would a Second Trump Reign Mean for Press Freedom?
- Why the Press Needs To Press for Senate Action on the PRESS Act
- Harris Must Shed More Light on Her Press Freedom Views
Plus, more forward-looking WatchDogs:
Reporter’s Toolbox
Other look-ahead coverage
- EJ Academy: Up for a Challenge — Fifty Environmental Journalists on the Profession and Its Future
- Voices of Environmental Justice: Future of Justice40 Program Hangs in Balance
- Feature: Better Communicating for the Climate
- Feature: Coequal Catastrophes — Quammen on Climate Change, Extinction and Epidemics
- Feature: Rethinking Rural Reporting — How To Get Past the Cliches
- Feature: ‘Green’ Steel: Five Things To Know About the U.S. Transition
Also be sure to check out this past year's 2024 Guide.
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