Society of Environmental Journalists Awards

2023

Outstanding Explanatory Reporting (First Place), Small

To: Nicholas Kusnetz

For: Pipe Dreams: Is Carbon Capture a Climate Solution or a Dangerous Distraction?

Outstanding Feature Story (First Place), Small

To: Anne Marshall-Chalmers

For: Mobile Homes, the Last Affordable Housing Option for Many California Residents, Are Going Up in Smoke

Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting (First Honorable Mention), Small

To: Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous and Anne Marshall-Chalmers

For: Something in the Water

Outstanding Explanatory Reporting (Third Place), Small

To: Anne Marshall-Chalmers

For: How a Timber Mill Spawned a Black Community, and Likely Sparked the Fire That Destroyed It. A Story of Segregation and Climate Change.

Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting (First Place)

To: Aydali Campa, Jimmy Cloutier, Sarah Hunt, Mollie Jamison, Isabel Koyama, Laura Kraegel, Maya Leachman, Michael McDaniel, Andrew Onodera, Kenneth Quayle, Nicole Sadek, Isaac Simonelli, Rachel Stapholz, Sarah Suwalsky, Zoha Tunio, Zachary Van Arsdale and Alexis Young, Arizona State University Cronkite School of Journalism, published by Cronkite News/AZPBS

For: Gaslit

2022

Outstanding Beat Reporting (First Honorable Mention), Small

To: Katie Surma

For:

• Does Nature Have Rights? A Burgeoning Legal Movement Says Rivers, Forests and Wildlife Have Standing, Too
• To Stop Line 3 Across Minnesota, an Indigenous Tribe Is Asserting the Legal Rights of Wild Rice
• Indigenous Women in Peru Seek To Turn the Tables on Big Oil, Asserting ‘Rights of Nature’ to Fight Epic Spills
• Ecuador’s High Court Affirms Constitutional Protections for the Rights of Nature in a Landmark Decision
• In the Latest Rights of Nature Case, a Tribe Is Suing Seattle on Behalf of Salmon in the Skagit River

Outstanding Beat Reporting (Third Honorable Mention), Small

To: Phil McKenna and James Bruggers

For:

• A Single Chemical Plant in Louisville Emits a Super-Pollutant That Does More Climate Damage Than Every Car in the City
• Louisville’s Super-Polluting Chemical Plant Emits Not One, But Two Potent Greenhouse Gases
• Chemours Says It Will Dramatically Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Aiming for Net Zero by 2050
• The EPA Proposes a Ban on HFC-23, the Most Potent Greenhouse Gas Among Hydrofluorocarbons, by October 2022
• Chemours’ Process for Curtailing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Could Produce Hazardous Air Pollutants in Louisville

Outstanding Beat Reporting (Second Honorable Mention), Large

To: Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, and Judy Fahys and James Bruggers, Inside Climate News

For:

• It Was an Old Apple Orchard. Now It Could Be the Future of Clean Hydrogen Energy in Washington State
• Solar Farms Are Booming in Washington State, But Where Should They Go?
• A Proposed $1.7 Billion Wind and Solar Project Generates Hopes and Fears in South Central Washington State
• This Next-Generation Nuclear Power Plant Is Pitched for Washington State. Can It ‘Change The World’?
• Bill Gates’ Vision for Next-Generation Nuclear Power in Wyoming Coal Country

Outstanding Student Reporting (Second Honorable Mention)

To: Nicholas Portuondo, Northwestern University, published by Inside Climate News

For: As the Gulf of Mexico Heals from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Stringent Safety Proposals Remain Elusive

2020

Outstanding Beat Reporting (First Place), Small

To: James Bruggers

For:

• Appalachia’s Strip-Mined Mountains Face a Growing Climate Risk: Flooding
• McConnell’s Record on Coal Has Become a Hot Topic in His Senate Campaign
• Not Trusting FEMA’s Flood Maps, More Storm-Ravaged Cities Set Tougher Rules
• Inside a Southern Coal Conference: Pep Rallies and Fears of an Industry’s Demise
• Southern Cities’ Renewable Energy Push Could Be Stifled As Utility Locks Them Into Longer Contracts

2016

Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding In-depth Reporting (First Place), Small

To: Neela Banerjee, John H. Cushman Jr., David Hasemyer, and Lisa Song

For: Exxon: The Road Not Taken

2015

Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding In-depth Reporting (First Place), Large

To: Lisa Song, David Hasemyer, Paul Horn, Zahra Hirji, Susan White, Sabrina Shankman, Marcus Stern, Hannah Robbins, David Martin Davies for InsideClimate News; Jim Morris, Ben Wieder, Alan Suderman, Jamie Smith Hopkins, Rosalind Adams, David Heath, Eleanor Bell, Alex Cohen, Chris Zubak-Skees for The Center for Public Integrity; Gregory Gilderman, Kevin Hayes, Neil Katz, Faisal Azam, Eric Jankstrom, Shawn Efran, Katie Wiggin for The Weather Channel

For: Big Oil, Bad Air

Outstanding Feature Story (Second Place)

To: Sabrina Shankman

For: Meltdown: Terror at the Top of the World

2013

Rachel Carson Environment Book Award (First Place)

To: Elizabeth McGowan and Lisa Song

For: The Dilbit Disaster