Organized by the Society of Environmental Journalists, George Mason University, and the Wilson Center.

From pipeline politics to hurricane horrors, 2017 witnessed a flood of energy and environment news—and 2018 promises to set a new high-water mark. On January 26 at the Wilson Center, the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) launched the annual report, "The Journalists' Guide to Energy and Environment,” which previewed the top stories of 2018 and featured comments from a roundtable of leading journalists.

For the last five years, the Society of Environmental Journalists and the Wilson Center have hosted the only annual event in the nation's capital featuring top journalists offering their predictions for the year ahead on environment and energy. Since 2013, more than 30 reporters from New York Times, Washington Post, National Geographic, Politico, Associated Press,  Wall Street Journal and many more have shared their observations with thousands of policymakers, journalists, and business leaders in Washington, DC, and around the world. Always streamed live and always standing room only, the event is essential for anyone working to meet the critical energy and environment challenges facing our nation and the world.

This conversation is part of the ongoing “Managing Our Planet” series, jointly developed by George Mason University and the Wilson Center’s Brazil Institute and Environmental Change and Security Program. The series, now in its sixth year, is premised on the fact that humanity’s impacts are planetary in scale and require planetary-scale solutions.

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