Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is urging EPA to expand its environmental justice (EJ) mapping tool, EJSCREEN, and use it in federal decision-making to address inequities faced by poor and minority communities when siting chemical and other facilities, signaling she is likely to play a key rol...
“Summit prioritized profits over the environment. The company’s disregard for pipeline safety resulted in pollution of the environment on a massive scale over 143 days,” said Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. “Summit’s co...
The U.S. EPA’s Environmental Justice (EJ) Collaborative Problem-Solving (CPS) Model represents a systematic, community-based approach for bringing together various stakeholders to develop solutions to address local EJ and public health concerns. This mixed methods evaluation study, using a two-phase...
EJSCREENis a mapping and screening tool based on environmental and demographic data. EPA created this tool to support participatory scientists in identifying and researching environmental justice concerns in their communities. EnviroAtlasis an interactive web tool that features datasets on everything from ...