https://www.epa.gov/benmap This video also shows an example of an air quality investigation. Extreme weather investigation: This tool helps map extreme weather around the worldconnected to climate change. Thistool can help you find past hurricanes, typhoons, and other tropical storms. And thisma...
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Political Economy Research Institute - innovative environmental justice research using Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) data and EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI). Climate Justice and People of Color by Robert D. Bullard. Climate Justice and Equity. ...
Evergreen Action is outlining an array of unfinished climate change rules it wants the Biden administration to complete by the end of the current presidential term, including multiple EPA rules limiting emissions from major sectors and important guidance to determine eligibility for federal clean energy...
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) explain that disadvantaged and marginalised groups are hit the hardest by climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss, with less ability to adapt to the consequences. ...
Opinion The Project 2025 Promise: Worse Health and Climate Chaos The outcome of the November election will have an impact for decades to come Oct 08, 2024 Fla. Hospitals Evacuate; Man Charged in Indian Doctor's Death; Life Expectancy Limit Health news and commentary gathered by MedPage ...
Since the beginning of the Biden-Harris Administration, EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance also took actions to combat climate change. OECA partnered with the Office of Air and Radiation to establish a comprehensive program to cap and phase down the production and consumption of...
Climate change intervenes in a world with gross inequalities. As a result, the effects of climate change are distributed unequally along the axes of nationality, geography, generations, gender, race, ethnicity, and age among others. Unless concerted efforts are made to counter these inequalities, ...
Environmental Health Disparities and Environmental Justice. https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/translational/justice/index.cfm. Accessed 2 Jan 2022. EPA Announces $50 Million to Fund Environmental Justice Initiatives Under the American Rescue Plan | US EPA. https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
support data collection efforts to track disproportionate burdens of pollution and climate change on EJ communities, as well as to ensure that any mapping or screening tool (such as EPA’s environmental justice screening and mapping tool EJScreen and HHS’s new Environmental Justice Index)...