There Has Never Been a Better Time for Environmental Journalism

There has never been a better time for environmental journalism, authors say.

They say the oil and gas industry seems to be running the government and dictating the media narrative.

Journalists cling to the belief (or hope) that news media truth-telling can save the planet.

But disentangling truth from falsehood is still a key challenge.

In 1969 , it was comparatively easy to attend a press conference over the fire-prone Cuyahoga River .

Today , there has grown up a multibillion-dollar PR industry to make pollution seem normal.

We will need to seek out and tell the stories of those who are hungry, poor, unemployed, farm workers, Indigenous Americans , Latinos , Black people, disabled people, incarcerated people.