SEAL Awards
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. The Awards were created in 2017 by businessman Matt Harney.
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.Environmental Journalism Awards
Twelve journalists each year receive recognition for environmental reporting, particularly investigative journalism. Past award winners include writers for traditional news media such as The Guardian and more recent, web-based platforms like Grist and Mongabay.| Year of award | Journalist | Publication |
| 2017 | The Guardian | |
| 2017 | The New Yorker | |
| 2017 | Inside Climate News | |
| 2017 | Mother Jones | |
| 2017 | The Atlantic | |
| 2017 | The Guardian | |
| 2017 | The Washington Post | |
| 2017 | Fast Company | |
| 2017 | The New York Times | |
| 2017 | Vox | |
| 2018 | The Guardian | |
| 2018 | CalMatters | |
| 2018 | Ars Technica | |
| 2018 | Grist | |
| 2018 | HuffPost | |
| 2018 | National Geographic, Vice | |
| 2018 | The Washington Post | |
| 2018 | Bloomberg Environment | |
| 2018 | The New York Times | |
| 2018 | Vox | |
| 2018 | The New York Times | |
| 2018 | The Guardian | |
| 2019 | HEATED | |
| 2019 | The New York Times | |
| 2019 | Earther/Gizmodo | |
| 2019 | The Guardian | |
| 2019 | Vox | |
| 2019 | National Geographic | |
| 2019 | The Atlantic | |
| 2019 | Fast Company | |
| 2019 | Vox | |
| 2019 | The New York Times | |
| 2019 | The Guardian | |
| 2019 | Time | |
| 2020 | NPR | |
| 2020 | Mongabay | |
| 2020 | The Washington Post | |
| 2020 | The New York Times | |
| 2020 | The Guardian | |
| 2020 | Hot Take | |
| 2020 | Earther | |
| 2020 | HuffPost | |
| 2020 | Grist | |
| 2020 | Volts | |
| 2020 | MIT Technology Review | |
| 2020 | Grist | |
| 2021 | Al Jazeera English, The Guardian | |
| 2021 | Vox, Mother Jones, Grist | |
| 2021 | The Atlantic | |
| 2021 | The Boston Globe, Earther | |
| 2021 | Time | |
| 2021 | Grist | |
| 2021 | CNN | |
| 2021 | Volts | |
| 2021 | The New York Times | |
| 2021 | Forbes, The Financial Times | |
| 2021 | ProPublica | |
| 2021 | Bloomberg News, BuzzFeed News | |
| 2022 | The Narwhal | |
| 2022 | Mongabay | |
| 2022 | Floodlight | |
| 2022 | Mongabay | |
| 2022 | Africa Climate News | |
| 2022 | Yale Climate Connections | |
| 2022 | ProPublica | |
| 2022 | Grist | |
| 2022 | The Guardian, National Geographic | |
| 2022 | Earther/Gizmodo | |
| 2022 | The Hill | |
| 2022 | Grist, Sierra Magazine | |
| 2023 | Los Angeles Times | |
| 2023 | Southeast Asia Globe | |
| 2023 | The Washington Post | |
| 2023 | The Hill | |
| 2023 | The Third Pole | |
| 2023 | Mongabay | |
| 2023 | freelance | |
| 2023 | Heatmap News | |
| 2023 | Mongabay | |
| 2023 | freelancer | |
| 2023 | The Boston Globe | |
| 2023 | Grist | |
| 2024 | Inside Climate News | |
| 2024 | Reuters, Dialogue Earth | |
| 2024 | Carbon Brief | |
| 2024 | Politico | |
| 2024 | Grist | |
| 2024 | Capital B News | |
| 2024 | DeSmog, The Guardian | |
| 2024 | Mongabay, Hakai Magazine | |
| 2024 | Grist | |
| 2024 | The Guardian | |
| 2024 | The Narwhal | |
| 2024 | The Guardian |