Big Oil Privately Acknowledged Efforts To Downplay Climate Crisis: Docs
"Internal documents revealed by committee show companies lobbied against climate laws they publicly claimed to support."
Source: Guardian, 05/01/2024
Journalism & Media
"Opinion: Can Nonprofit News Save the South From Itself?"
"When I moved here in 1987, Nashville had two daily newspapers: a morning paper, The Tennessean, whose editorial page leaned left; and an evening paper, the Nashville Banner, whose editorial page leaned right. I still subscribe to The Tennessean, but the Banner is long gone. In 1998, The Tennessean bought its longtime competitor and shut it down."
Source: NYTimes, 04/30/2024
"Meet the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners"
"Seven grassroots environmental activists were awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize on April 29. Known as the “Green Nobel Prize,” the Goldman Prize honors activists from the six continental regions."
Source: Mongabay, 04/30/2024
"How To Investigate Toxic Lead Lurking In Your Community’s Soil"
"New resources from the Center for Public Integrity and Grist aim to teach residents and reporters how to conduct their own research."
Source: Grist, 04/29/2024
Cross-Border Project Exposes Extent of PFAS Contamination in Europe
A dozen European news partners collaborated last year to gather a massive set of water, soil and organism samples that pointed to more than 17,000 PFAS-contaminated sites in the region, many known to authorities but kept from the public. The award-winning project was led by Le Monde’s Stéphane Horel, who spoke with SEJournal for the latest Inside Story Q&A.
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Spurt in Hydro Relicensing To Leave U.S. Awash in Environmental Stories
Hundreds of hydropower dams in the United States will see their licenses expiring in the next decade, generating years-long federal relicensing processes. That prospect calls for close local and regional coverage of the complicated balance between renewable energy needs with negative environmental impacts. The latest TipSheet explains the licensing process and the dam backstory, along with a dozen story ideas and reporting resources.
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Climate Crisis Makes for Real Fashion Emergency
Fast fashion’s lack of sustainability has long been the subject of news media coverage. But now the realities of climate change mean that fashion reporting must be reimagined to include the lived environmental and human rights realities of workers making what we wear, writes contributor Yessenia Funes in the new Voices of Environmental Justice column. Ideas and resources for getting past simplistic fashion industry narratives.
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#SEJSpotlight: Erin Stone, Climate Emergency Reporter, LAist
Meet SEJ member Erin Stone! Before coming to LAist in late 2021, Erin covered topics such as mental health, domestic violence and environmental issues for newspapers in Texas, Arizona and northern California. She turned her focus to climate coverage after reporting on the devastating impacts of rising sea levels on communities in the remote Sundarbans islands in India.
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"New Government Heat Risk Tool Sets Magenta As Most Dangerous Level"
"The National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday — Earth Day — presented a new online heat risk system that combines meteorological and medical risk factors with a seven-day forecast that’s simplified and color-coded for a warming world of worsening heat waves."
Source: AP, 04/24/2024
Top Louisiana University Lets Oil Firms Influence Research – For A Price
"Louisiana State University allowed Shell to influence studies after a $25m donation and sought funds from other fossil fuel firms".
Source: Guardian/Lens, 04/23/2024
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