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Winners of the Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting

The Nina Mason Pulliam Award for the "best of the best" environmental reporting will award $10,000 to one entry selected from the first-place winners of SEJ's Awards for Reporting on the Environment. The prize also includes travel, registration and hotel expenses (up to $2,500) for the winner, or representatives of the winning team, to attend SEJ's annual conference. All SEJ Awards first-place winners are automatically entered into the Nina Mason Pulliam Award.

"How Do Thousands Prepare for a Climate Summit? With Difficulty."

"In a few weeks, an estimated 20,000 ministers, activists and executives from nearly every country in the world are set to descend on Glasgow to hammer out how to make progress on climate change."

Source: NYTimes, 10/05/2021

Month After Ida's Landfall, Louisianians Decry 'Third World' Conditions

"Reuters traveled the bayous of hard-hit Terrebonne, Lafourche, Jefferson and Plaquemines parishes in recent days, speaking with more than 40 residents. All said they felt abandoned by state and federal officials. A few said they had not received any type of support from any level of government."

Source: Reuters, 10/05/2021

5 Midwest Governors Agree To Create Network To Charge Electric Vehicles

"The governors of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin are joining forces to build a new network for charging electric vehicles. The bipartisan plan aims to improve the region's economy while also reducing toxic emissions from cars and trucks."

Source: NPR, 10/05/2021

"Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Plans To Raze Old-Growth Forest"

"The plan to clear forest for quail habitat is raising the ire of hunters and hikers, as well as a bipartisan group of state lawmakers".

Source: Tennessee Lookout, 10/05/2021

Rare Flower Found At Site Of Planned Lithium Mine May Be Endangered

"Federal wildlife officials proposed endangered species protections Friday for a desert wildflower known to exist only on a remote Nevada ridge where an Australian company plans a lithium mine."

Source: AP, 10/05/2021

"Oil Spills Plague Venezuelan Coast, But Cleanup Efforts Are Lacking"

"There have been 53 oil spills in Venezuela this year through September, most of them concentrated on the Caribbean coast where massive government oil refineries operate with little environmental oversight."

Source: Mongabay, 10/05/2021

"Urban Heat Is Getting More Dangerous"

"Exposure to extreme heat in cities has tripled since the 1980s, putting more people in harm's way."

Source: Earther, 10/05/2021

"Did Ship’s Anchor Cause California Oil Spill? Maybe"

"Officials investigating one of California’s largest recent oil spills are looking into whether a ship’s anchor may have struck an oil pipeline on the ocean floor, causing heavy crude to leak into coastal waters and foul beaches, authorities said Monday."

Source: AP, 10/05/2021

"14% Of World’s Coral Lost In Less Than A Decade, Study Shows"

"In the largest analysis of coral reef health ever undertaken, scientists found that between 2009 and 2018 the world lost about 11,700 sq km of coral – the equivalent of more than all the living coral in Australia."

Source: Guardian, 10/05/2021

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