# 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.
Award Winners :
| Year of award | Journalist | Publication |
| 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, targeted cup waste in the Starbucks café chain and Yelp reviews of restaurants using plastic straws, and endorsed Jay Inslee for the 2020 United States presidential campaign. The environmental rewards credit card was presented as an open-source concept in a detailed business case launch memo.

### 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.