2025 SEJ Board Elections: FAQs
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the 2025 SEJ board elections.
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2025 SEJ Board Elections
As SEJ prepares for our next Board of Directors election, we invite you to take an active role in shaping the future of environmental reporting. Run for the board, nominate a colleague or cast your vote! Sept. 26 is the deadline to submit the Intent to Run form and meet eligibility.
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NIH Details Options For Limiting Its Payments For Open-Access Publishing Fees
"In a move that could shake up scientific publishing, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) last week proposed specific limits on how much it would reimburse grantees who pay publishers to make their articles open access, or free to read. The suggested limits, which include possible caps of $2000 to $6000 per paper, may block scientists from publishing in top-tier journals with much higher fees, unless they or their institution come up with the difference."
Source: Science, 08/07/2025
Ecofiction — A Novel Approach to Environmental Truth-Telling
Fiction and journalism might seem like polar opposites, but some environmental journalists find writing ecofiction is an ideal complement to their day jobs. Drawing on journalistic research skills and curiosity, ecofiction lets them explore environmental issues from a different angle while enjoying an opportunity to unleash their imaginations. Journalist-fictioneers Valerie Brown and Meg Turville-Heitz on working across genre boundaries.
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Coastal Flooding Challenges Cities Around the U.S.
The United States has nearly 100,000 miles of coastline and much of it is at risk of flooding. But what that inundation looks like varies widely from place to place. From storm surges to land subsidence, the latest Backgrounder details the different types of flooding and the threats they pose to coastal communities, especially sea level cities.
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Lapses in Enforcement by Trump's EPA May Yield Local Environment Stories
Enforcement has usually been serious business at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Now it seems many pollution laws are going unpoliced. TipSheet explains how the EPA’s own resources can help investigative reporters find violations, track regulatory actions and uncover nationwide patterns of corporate mismanagement.
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Volunteer To Support SEJ’s Awards for Reporting on the Environment!
Help recognize and amplify excellence in environmental journalism by volunteering as a screener or judge for the annual SEJ Awards honoring the best environmental reporting across 10 categories, highlighting original, impactful and skillfully reported stories on the most urgent environmental issues of our time.
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