In this special report, “2024 Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy,” the SEJournal looks ahead in our eighth annual guide to key issues in the coming year. Check out the guide’s forward-focused TipSheets and Backgrounders, plus an overview analysis and a report from the Society of Environmental Journalists'year-ahead event in Washington, D.C.

Year-Ahead Event Coverage

• Gathering Offers Sobering Look Ahead at 2024, But With Glimmers of Hope

Overview Analysis

• Floods, Fires, Dysfunction — Another Year Ahead of Faltering Steps on Environment, Energy

Special TipSheets

• Seabed Mining May Dredge Up Real Minerals, Fishy Worries in 2024
• Do Home Buyers Have a Right to Flood Risk Disclosure? (Part Two of Two)
• Home Insurance Likely To Be a 2024 Climate Story Near You (Part One of Two)
• Funding To Replace Lead Pipes Is Just the Start of the Story
• Waste Incineration May Put Toxics Into Local Air
• Dangerous Inland Flooding in Reporters’ Forecast

Plus, more forward-lookingTipSheets:

• Wildfire Smoke — Now a Local Story in Unaccustomed Places
• When Extreme Weather Amplifies Hazardous Waste Threats
• Funding Initiative May Help Surface Overlooked Environmental Justice Stories
• Reporters Can Address Uncertainty Over Local Risk of Rising Seas

Issue Backgrounders

• Why Environmental Reporters Need To ‘Get’ the Budget Process
• Electric Vehicles Will Be Burning Rubber in 2024
• COP28 Will Be Earth-Shaping News in 2024 and Beyond
• Painful Process Underway of Regulating PFAS in Drinking Water
• Both Sides Now — How Permitting Reform May Affect Fossil Fuel, Clean Energy Industries
• How To Power Through Your EPA Power Plant Rule Coverage

Also be sure to check out this past year's2023 Guide.