Key Biden Climate Plan Likely to Be Cut Because of Manchin Opposition
"The West Virginia Democrat told the White House he is firmly against a clean electricity program that is the muscle behind the president’s plan to battle climate change."
"The West Virginia Democrat told the White House he is firmly against a clean electricity program that is the muscle behind the president’s plan to battle climate change."
The Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources, in partnership with SEJ, will present a virtual workshop, Nov 17-18, 2021, on covering the ongoing problem of Indigenous voices being ignored or silenced during conversations about contemporary natural resource management. Participating journalists eligible for story grants. Deadline: Nov 3.
Oceans Inc. is a cross-border investigation series into crimes in the global fishing industry, from the South China Sea to the Antarctic. At 8:00 a.m. ET, meet the journalists behind the series and find out more about the Environmental Reporting Collective's reporting and training grants that are worth over USD15,000.
SEJ and the UN Foundation are bringing together UN policy experts and journalists to discuss what to watch for ahead of the 26th Climate Change Conference of the Parties, as the international community seeks to measure and accelerate progress towards meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement. 1:00 p.m. ET.
Meet SEJ member Rachel Nuwer! Rachel is an award-winning freelance journalist who regularly writes about conservation, ecology and wildlife trade for the New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American and more. Her multi-award-winning first book, "Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking," was published in September 2018 with Da Capo Press.
As members of the World Federation of Science Journalists, SEJ and its members are eligible to apply for this new funding of up to US$20,000 per project for work that strengthens science journalism locally while also benefitting the worldwide community. Projects or initiatives must be brand new. Apply by Oct 30, 2021.
"Spend some time around the shell-shocked journalists at the Tribune these days, and you’ll hear the same question over and over: How did it come to this?"
"A new forecast shows a near-tripling of global storage capacity in 2021 compared to 2020, which also was a record year."
"Dozens of Indigenous leaders held a sit-in Thursday at the Interior Department in Washington, D.C., in an effort to stop the extractive fossil fuel industries."
"Dwindling populations of the American bumblebee and their complete disappearance from eight states has led to a call for the bee to be placed under the Endangered Species Act before they face extinction."