Screening Tools
The Public Environmental Data Partners are committed to preserving and providing public access to federal environmental data. They are a volunteer coalition of several environmental, justice, and policy organizations, researchers across several universities, archivists, and students who rely on federal datasets and tools to support critical research, advocacy, policy, and litigation work.
These exist at https://screening-tools.com/ and include tools such as the Climate and Economic Justice Screening tool. These are an unofficial copy of the tool. They are working on an overhaul, but in the meantime some links and text may incorrectly suggest that this site is affiliated with the US Government.
They will continue to update this in the coming days.They will also be adding more climate and environmental justice datasets and tools in coming days/weeks, including most likely EJ Screen.
Supporting Overburdened Communities Mapping Tool
The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency has created the resulting map providing multiple opportunities to serve communities, utilizing environmental justice grants and emission reduction projects.
Our overburdened communities are those with a combination of poorer health outcomes, more air pollution sources, and whose residents face socio-economic barriers to participation in clean air decisions and solutions. To identify our overburdened communities, they combined information from multiple trusted sources, including their own Community Air Tool, Washington State’s Environmental Health Disparities Map, Washington State Department of Ecology’s Overburdened Communities, and EPA’s Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool.
Energy Justice Mapping Tool
The mapping tool highlights census tracts that the Department of Energy consider disadvantaged. Disadvantaged communities were identified using 36 indicators related to fossil fuel dependence, energy burden, environmental and climate hazards, and socio-economic vulnerabilities.