SEAL Awards

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SEAL Awards are an environmental advocacy organization that uses annual awards for businesses and journalists to support environmental initiatives and to fund grants in the field of policy research. The name is an acronym for sustainability, environmental achievement, and leadership. [1] The Awards were created in 2017 by businessman Matt Harney. [2]

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Award categories

Business Sustainability Awards

These awards honor corporate sustainability initiatives, sustainable products, and environmentally responsible innovation. Application fees for this award fund social impact campaigns and research grants. [1]

Environmental Journalism Awards

Twelve journalists each year receive recognition for environmental reporting, particularly investigative journalism. [1] Past award winners include writers for traditional news media such as The Guardian [3] [4] and more recent, web-based platforms like Grist [5] [6] [7] and Mongabay. [8] [9] [10]

Award Winners [11]
Year of awardJournalistPublication
2017 Damian Carrington The Guardian
2017 Elizabeth Kolbert The New Yorker
2017 Marianne Lavelle Inside Climate News
2017 Rebecca Leber Mother Jones
2017 Robinson Meyer The Atlantic
2017 George Monbiot The Guardian
2017 Chris Mooney The Washington Post
2017 Adele Peters Fast Company
2017 Brad Plumer The New York Times
2017 Dave Roberts Vox
2018 Damian Carrington The Guardian
2018 Julie Cart CalMatters
2018 Megan Geuss Ars Technica
2018 Nathanael Johnson Grist
2018 Alexander Kaufman HuffPost
2018 Stephen Leahy National Geographic , Vice
2018 Chris Mooney The Washington Post
2018 James Munson Bloomberg Environment
2018 Brad Plumer The New York Times
2018 Dave Roberts Vox
2018 Hiroko Tabuchi The New York Times
2018 Jonathan Watts The Guardian
2019 Emily Atkin HEATED
2019 Lisa Friedman The New York Times
2019 Yessenia Funues Earther/Gizmodo
2019 Fiona Harvey The Guardian
2019 Umair Irfan Vox
2019 Stephen Leahy National Geographic
2019 Robinson Meyer The Atlantic
2019 Adele Peters Fast Company
2019 Dave Roberts Vox
2019 Hiroko Tabuchi The New York Times
2019 Jonathan Watts The Guardian
2019 Justin Worland Time
2020 Jeff Brady NPR
2020 Rhett Ayers Butler Mongabay
2020 Juliet Eilperin The Washington Post
2020 Lisa Friedman The New York Times
2020 Fiona Harvey The Guardian
2020 Mary Annaïse Heglar Hot Take
2020 Brian Kahn Earther
2020 Alexander Kaufman HuffPost
2020 Shannon Osaka Grist
2020 Dave Roberts Volts (newsletter)
2020 James Temple MIT Technology Review
2020 Zoya Teirstein Grist
2021 Hilary Beaumont Al Jazeera English, The Guardian
2021 Rebecca Leber Vox, Mother Jones, Grist
2021 Robinson Meyer The Atlantic
2021 Dharna Noor The Boston Globe , Earther
2021 Justin Worland Time
2021 Shannon Osaka Grist
2021 Rachel Ramirez CNN
2021 Dave Roberts Volts (newsletter)
2021 Somini Sengupta The New York Times
2021 David Sheppard Forbes, The Financial Times
2021 Lisa Song ProPublica
2021 Zahra Hirji Bloomberg News, BuzzFeed News
2022 Ainslie Cruickshank The Narwhal
2022 Basten Gokkon Mongabay
2022 Emily Holden Floodlight
2022 Karla Mendes Mongabay
2022 Sophie Mbugua Africa Climate News
2022 Dana Nuccitelli Yale Climate Connections
2022 Mark Olalde ProPublica
2022 Naveena Sadasivam Grist
2022 Richa Syal The Guardian, National Geographic
2022 Molly Taft Earther/Gizmodo
2022 Sharon Udasin The Hill
2022 John Macracken Grist, Sierra Magazine
2023 Tony Briscoe Los Angeles Times
2023 Anton L. Delgado Southeast Asia Globe
2023 Darryl Fears The Washington Post
2023 Rachel Frazin The Hill
2023 Joydeep Gupta The Third Pole (Dialogue Earth)
2023 Hans Nicholas Jong Mongabay
2023 Lois Farrow Parshley freelance
2023 Emily Pontecorvo Heatmap News
2023 Maxwell Radwin Mongabay
2023 Saqib Rahim freelancer
2023 Sabrina Shankman The Boston Globe
2023 Kate Yoder Grist
2024 Dylan Baddour Inside Climate News
2024 Catherine Early Reuters, Dialogue Earth
2024 Josh Gabbatiss Carbon Brief
2024 Chelsea Harvey Politico
2024 Anita Hofschneider Grist
2024 Adam Mahoney Capital B News
2024 Ellen Ormesher DeSmog, The Guardian
2024 Spoorthy Raman Mongabay, Hakai Magazine
2024 Matt Simon Grist
2024 Maanvi Singh The Guardian
2024 Fatima Syed The Narwhal
2024 Aliya Uteuova The Guardian

Impact Campaigns

SEAL Awards have advocated for the creation of a credit card whose interchange fees would pay into climate change programs rather than a traditional credit rewards program, [12] targeted cup waste in the Starbucks café chain [13] and Yelp reviews of restaurants using plastic straws, [14] and endorsed Jay Inslee for the 2020 United States presidential campaign. [15] The environmental rewards credit card was presented as an open-source concept in a detailed business case launch memo. [16]

Environmental Research Grants

The research award is a monetary grant for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers at the beginning of their careers in environmental policy. [1] [17]

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