New Environmental Justice Tool from the EPAMarcia G. Yerman
EPA environmental justice (EJ) officials are looking to a variety of screening tools to measure and compare the data collected among EJ communities, highlighting the contribution that a new tool from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) serves in helping identify the cumulative impacts...
Progressive groups are calling for policymakers to create a new environmental justice (EJ) mapping tool that is more robust than EPA’s current EJSCREEN, a measure supporters say would complement calls from Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, for agencies to asse...
From an infrastructure perspective, the EJA provided the groundwork and taught EJ advocates how to address injustices in their community with specific skills such as community mapping with the Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (EJSCREEN) [18] and Community-Focused Exposure and Risk ...
Environmental Justice Participatory science is an invaluable tool for communities disproportionately impacted by environmental issues, also known asenvironmental justiceconcerns. Engaging community members directly in science projects that address local concerns about air and water pollution can lead to better ...
The EPA announced key members of the agency’s incoming leadership team who will advance the Biden-Harris administration’s agenda to tackle the climate crisis, advance environmental justice and create clean energy jobs. “We are proud to join the EPA team of dedicated career professionals,” said...
The criminal case is being prosecuted by Senior Litigation Counsel Richard A. Udell, Senior Trial Attorney Christopher J. Costantini, Trial Attorneys Stephen J. Foster and Erica H. Pencak of the Environmental Crimes Section of the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resource Division (...
Washington— The Supreme Court on Thursday curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate certain wetlands that qualify as "waters of the United States" under the Clean Water Act, curbing what has long been seen as a key tool to protect waterways from pollution. ...
Meanwhile, outgoing EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler touted Grignard Pure as a “first-of-its kind” tool to “help fight the spread of the novel coronavirus,”vowingin the agency’s press release that “There is no higher priority for EPA than protecting the health and safety of Americans....
To identify the potential national impacts of replacing only the oldest buses, we used the EPA’s Age Distribution Tool for MOVES2014 to estimate what fraction of the US school bus fleet was pre-1990 and, separately, 1990–1999 in calendar year 2021 (ref. 16). We then applied these ...