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The winner of the 2023 Nina Mason Pulliam Award is "The Amazon, Undone" by Terrence McCoy, Júlia Ledur and Cecília do Lago, with photos by Raphael Alves and Rafael Vilela, for The Washington Post. Honorable mention goes to a team of students at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication for "Gaslit." ....
The Society of Environmental Journalists is pleased to announce the Outstanding Student Reporting winners of the 2023 SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment. Read the stories and hear from one of the first-place winners. ....
The Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota, home to a massive amount of natural gas flaring, is battling for regulatory control over this wasteful practice. ....
Oil and gas operators in Texas and a dozen other U.S. states have flared, or burned off, at least 3.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas over much of the last decade, according to an analysis of satellite data by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism. The industry has also directly released, or vented, into the atmosphere unknown amounts of the methane-rich gas. Flaring and venting release a cocktail of carbon dioxide, methane and other pollutants. But regulators are unaware of the total volumes of greenhouse gases being released, even as climate scientists warn that without steep, immediate reductions, the world will miss its chance to avert the deadliest and most destructive effects of climate change. ....
A new investigation by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication revealed regulators are in the dark when it comes to how much greenhouse gases are being released into the atmosphere. ....