SEJ Webinar: Covering the Tough Stuff — How to Report on Industrial Decarbonization

Covering the Tough Stuff:

How to Report on Industrial Decarbonization

Wednesday, November 20, 2024   |   1:00-2:00 p.m. ET

All journalists welcome!

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Video recording and chat log

Join us for the next #SEJWebinar in partnership with Canary Media for an exploration of an essential yet underreported area of energy transition coverage: industrial decarbonization.

In this hour-long session, Canary Media reporters Maria Gallucci, Jeff St. John and Julian Spector will guide us through the challenges heavy industries like steel, cement and concrete face moving toward sustainable production. You'll gain invaluable insights into innovative technologies and policy solutions — including the Biden administration's $6.3 billion program to reduce heavy industrial emissions.

We'll discuss:

• The economic opportunities related to decarbonization 
• Concerns of local communities and the existing workforce
• Effective reporting techniques, research methods and fresh story ideas
• Industry terminology and how to keep up with it

Don't miss this chance to deepen your understanding and enhance your reporting and editing on this critical issue!

Moderator:

• Aparna Mukherjee, Executive Director, Society of Environmental Journalists

Speakers:

• Maria Gallucci, Senior Reporter, Canary Media
• Julian Spector, Senior Reporter, Canary Media
• Jeff St. John, Director of News and Special Projects, Canary Media

Links and resources

• Presentation slides

Green Steel

• Canary Media’s Tough Stuff series
• "The Trillion-Dollar Quest To Make Green Steel" (source of slides)
• Industrious Labs' report on air pollution & steel mills
• HYBRIT pilot project in Sweden
• "Green Hydrogen Headwinds Hit Production Hub, Steel Project In Mississippi" (Ohio and Mississippi) 
• "US Steel Plant in Indiana To Host a $150M Carbon Capture Experiment" 
• "Move Over, Data Centers. US Steel Mills Need Lots of Clean Power Too." 

Cement & Concrete

• "To Decarbonize Cement, the Industry Needs a Full Transformation"
•  DOE Liftoff Report on low-carbon cement (source of slides)
•  "The 'Clean Cement' Projects Getting $1.5B in Biden Admin Funds"
• Canary Media’s Clean Hydrogen series (2024)
• "A New Green Aluminum Plant Could Bring Jobs — and Clean Energy — to Kentucky"

Hydrogen

• "Can Energy-Rich Pennsylvania Chart a Path Toward Decarbonization?"
• "Clean Hydrogen Is Driving the Next Gulf Coast Energy Boom"
• "We Need Green Hydrogen To Clean Up Heavy Industry. Who’s Making It?"
• "Should Power Plants Burn Clean Hydrogen To Make Electricity?"

Advocacy/research groups

• Industrious Labs
• Sunstone Strategies (PR firm)
• Center for Applied Environmental Law and Policy (CAELP)
• RMI
• Third Way (re: federal industrial policy)
• BloombergNEF
• Renewable Thermal Collaborative
• Clean Air Task Force

Industry initiatives

• ConcreteZero, SteelZero (Climate Group)
• Clean Energy Buyers Association/Institute
• Mission Possible Partnership
• First Movers Coalition

More

• UC Berkeley Labor Center study on Marathon oil refinery closure
• Ohio River Valley Institute study on green steel jobs transition  
• Memoir of steel worker: “Rust” by Eliese Colette Goldbach  

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