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SEJ's Environmental Events Calendar: Featured Event

Our Calendar lists professional meetings, press conferences, awards/fellowships/workshops deadlines and more. Aug 5, 2021: Join experienced journalists and subject-matter experts for Drought in the American West: "The Everything Disaster," a virtual discussion on the drying of the American West, what it means and how to report it. Hosted by SEJ and Circle of Blue. 1:00 p.m. ET.

SEJ Webinars

Watch the recording of SEJ's July 28 webinar "Can We Talk? Getting the Story From Biden’s Interior Department," a conversation with top aides to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. We explored what access journalists have now to experts and information at Interior and its many bureaus and offices. Webinar details.

Watch the recording of our July 21 webinar, "The Future Is Here: Climate Science and Covering the IPCC 6th Assessment Report," an overview of the IPCC process, its findings and what they might mean for U.S. policy.

Journalism Groups Urge White House To Let Government Experts Speak Freely to Journalists and Public

July 26, 2021 — SEJ joined with the Society of Professional Journalists and 23 other journalism groups in sending a letter today to the White House to request a meeting with its Scientific Integrity Task Force. The groups wish to discuss protection against interference in journalists' work, stating facts and making recommendations. Read the letter and press release.

#SEJSpotlight on Members

Meet SEJ member Carol Brzozowski! Carol is an experienced freelance journalist whose work has appeared in more than 200 media outlets. She is a regular contributor to publications in the environment sector, specifically as it relates to water efficiency, stormwater mitigation, solid waste, erosion control and infrastructure. Want SEJ to promote your work to our social media followers? Here's how.

SEJ Publication Highlights

A Look Back at the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement

07/28/2021 – The origins of the struggle to protect animal welfare began with preventing the brutal mistreatment of carriage horses. And a new volume explores how one man did much to extend those protections to many species with the founding of the ASPCA. Our BookShelf has a review of “A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement.”

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Get Organized Now for Next Year’s Tax Returns

07/28/2021 – If you’re a freelancer with disorganized piles of 2021 receipts already gathering dust in a corner, the latest Freelance Files is for you. Globetrotting science journalist Dan Grossman shares his system (and advice from his accountant) for tracking expenses for travel, legal and professional services, business costs, home office use and more. Your Schedule C will never seem quite so disconcerting again.

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Beach Closures Offer Key to Bigger Water Pollution Stories

07/28/2021 – People all too often swim in waters whose pollution risks are far scarier — and far more real — than shark attacks. Yet little attention is paid to the environmental stories behind the beach closures such pollution can necessitate. TipSheet helps you dip your toe, with the backstory on the most common cause for these health risks, plus reporting resources.

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"A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk of becoming a journalist."

— Louis Menand, "Browbeaten," The New Yorker, 9/5/2011

EJToday: Headlines

After Months Of Work, Senators Unveil $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill

Reuters, 08/02/2021
"China, India Miss UN Deadline To Update Emissions Targets"

AP, 08/02/2021
"EPA Outlines Plan To Expand Wetland Protections"

E&E News, 08/02/2021
"Athletes Battle Tokyo Summer As Staff Suffer Heat Illness"

Reuters, 08/02/2021
Brain Drain Among Federal Scientists Bogs Down Biden Climate Ambitions

NYTimes, 08/02/2021
Climate Groups Plan Make-or-Break Blitz Over Congressional Recess

HuffPost, 08/02/2021
"Fighting Fire With Fire"

Washington Post, 08/02/2021
"Sewage Equity? In Alabama, Trust Is As Important As Pipes."

Christian Science Monitor, 08/02/2021
"Washington's Orca Whale Pods Receive New Federal Habitat Protection"

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 08/02/2021
New Report Provides Map For Expanding Chestnut Agroforestry In The U.S.

Mongabay, 08/02/2021

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