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Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Ventura Coastal Agrees to $270,000 Penalty for Clean Air Act Violations at Visalia Facility
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EPA Awards $255,000 to Massachusetts in Beach Water Quality Monitoring Grant
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EPA Announces Winners of Let’s Talk About Heat Challenge
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Tuesday, August 30, 2022
EPA Fines Auto Repair Shops in Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska for ‘Defeat Device’ Violations
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Saturday, August 27, 2022
EPA Issues Fuel Waiver for Four States Impacted by Bp Refinery Shutdown
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Friday, August 26, 2022
La EPA llevará a cabo reunión comunitaria sobre emisiones de óxido de etileno en Salinas, Puerto Rico el 30 de agosto
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EPA to Host August 30 Community Meeting for Salinas, Puerto Rico Residents
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EPA Proposes Designating Certain PFAS Chemicals as Hazardous Substances Under Superfund to Protect People’s Health
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Thursday, August 25, 2022
EPA Settles Alleged Clean Air Act Violations with Sivyer Steel Castings LLC in Bettendorf, Iowa
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EPA Begins Hazardous Waste Cleanup at Diamond Hard Chrome Site in Cleveland
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Wednesday, August 24, 2022
EPA Discusses Community Redevelopment Efforts in Tyler, Wetzel and Monongalia Counties, West Virginia
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EPA Announces the Make a Market Tech Challenge for Students
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CDC's Environmental Justice Index
Overview
The Environmental Justice Index (EJI) is the first national, place-based tool designed to measure the cumulative impacts of environmental burden through the lens of human health and health equity.
The EJI delivers a single score for each community so that public health officials can identify and map areas most at risk for the health impacts of environmental burden. Social factors such as poverty, race, and ethnicity, along with pre-existing health conditions may increase these impacts. This tool helps public health officials prioritize action for those communities most at need.
Definitions
Environmental justice
Environmental justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, to develop, implement, and enforce environmental laws, regulations, and policies. This goal will be achieved when everyone enjoys the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards, and equal access to the decision-making process to live, learn, and work in a healthy environment.
Environmental burden and cumulative impacts
Cumulative impacts are the total harm to human health that occurs from the combination of environmental burden such as pollution and poor environmental conditions, pre-existing health conditions, and social factors such as access to quality healthcare.
An example of environmental burden and cumulative impacts would be a community with few native English speakers and little representation in local government who already face high rates of asthma and poor air quality. People in this community weren’t able to engage with the announcement of a manufacturing plant relocating to their area. Information about the manufacturing plant was not available in their preferred language. Ten years later, children in middle school may be getting sick and families may find that the plant has been leaking chemicals into their local water source. These families may not have health insurance or financial resources to pay for the medical treatment their children need, and their children’s medical issues may have gotten worse over time, with asthma and poor air quality compounding the issues caused by the pollution of the drinking water.
Furthermore, the overall environmental degradation experienced by this community could drive down land values in the area, making it impossible for families to sell their house and move to a less polluted community, and perpetuating a cycle of environmental degradation and economic immobility.
Health equity
Health equity is the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health. Achieving this requires focused and ongoing societal efforts to address historical and contemporary injustices, overcoming economic, social, and other obstacles to health and healthcare, and eliminating preventable health disparities.
Using the data
The EJI presents data for each census tract. Census tracts are the smallest subdivisions of land for which data are consistently available. Each census tract represents a county and is home to an average of 4,000 people.
The data used in the EJI comes from the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In addition to delivering a single environmental justice score for each community, the EJI also scores communities on each of the three modules in the tool (social vulnerability, environmental burden, health vulnerability) and allows more detailed analysis within these modules.
Individuals and community-based organizations, public health officials at local, state, and federal levels, scientists, and researchers to
- identify and prioritize areas that may require special attention or additional action to improve health and health equity,
- educate and inform the public about their community,
- analyze the unique, local factors driving cumulative impacts on health to inform policy and decision-making, and
- establish meaningful goals and measure progress towards environmental justice and health equity.
Limitations of the EJI
The EJI is intended as a high-level mapping and screening tool that characterizes cumulative impacts and patterns of environmental injustice across the U.S. The tool relies on historical data generated by various institutions on varying time scales.
The EJI is not intended as
- a definitive tool for labeling environmental justice communities,
- a tool for characterizing all environmental justice issues,
- a comprehensive representation of current or future social, environmental, or health characteristics,
- a representation of risk or exposure for a community, or
- a tool to tell whether individuals are at risk.
Complete information on limitations of the EJI can be found in the technical documentation.
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
EPA Officials Tour Pittsburgh Redevelopment Sites Where Brownfield Funding Supports a Community Resurgence
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New Jersey and New York Communities to Benefit from EPA Grant to Support Anaerobic Digestion Technology
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EPA settles with L.A.-Area Amalie Oil for violating Clean Water Act
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EPA Removes Portion of Tybouts Corner Landfill from List of Nation’s Most Contaminated Sites
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EPA Removes C&R Battery from List of Nation’s Most Contaminated Sites
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EPA Region 7 Announces More Deletions at Omaha Lead Superfund Site
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EPA Removes Chem-Solv Site from List of Nation’s Most Contaminated Sites
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Monday, August 22, 2022
Three Rural Communities in New England Receive Assistance to Grow Their Outdoor Recreation Economy
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EPA fines Autosales, Inc., which has location in Reno, for selling defeat devices, harming air quality
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Smith Frozen Foods to pay $100,000 penalty for Clean Air Act violations
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Friday, August 19, 2022
U.S. EPA cites Renergy, Inc. for alleged Clean Air Act violations in Ohio
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EPA Fines Shilling Construction Company Inc. for Alleged Clean Water Act Violations in Kansas
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EPA Proposes Stronger Regulations to Protect Communities from Chemical Accidents
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Thursday, August 18, 2022
U.S. and Mexico agree to invest $474M to address Tijuana River sewage problem
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EPA Calls for Nominations for 2023 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards
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EPA Fines Heartland Development LP for Alleged Clean Water Act Violations in Kansas
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Wednesday, August 17, 2022
EPA Announces Availability of $3.6 Million for Tribes to Protect and Expand Critical Wetland Habitats
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EPA announces cleanup activities are complete at another portion of Libby, Montana Superfund site
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Central Valley’s Saputo Cheese Agrees to $170,000 Penalty for Clean Air Act Violations
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Biden-Harris Administration to Help Rural Communities Grow Outdoor Recreation Economy
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Monday, August 15, 2022
EPA Seeks Input on the Phase 3 Greenhouse Gas Standard Rulemaking for Heavy-Duty Engines and Vehicles
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Friday, August 12, 2022
Statement by Administrator Regan on the Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
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Three Organizations in Region 7 Selected to Receive Funding for Environmental Education from EPA
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EPA and Senator Schumer Mark Recent Settlement to Remove Asbestos Piles from TechCity Site in Ulster County, New York
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Thursday, August 11, 2022
EPA Regional Administrator to tout brownfields investments in Portland low-income housing
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EPA Awards over $225,000 to Advance Environmental Justice in Arizona
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Under EPA agreement, Marine Corps Base Hawaii to make improvements after stormwater violations
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Wednesday, August 10, 2022
EPA Directs Carson City Public Works to Improve Pretreatment Program and Protect Carson River
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EPA and ICMA Invite Media to Attend 2022 Brownfields Conference in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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Tuesday, August 9, 2022
EPA Selects Educational Organizations to Receive Over $3.2 Million to Support Environmental Projects Nationwide
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Settlement Order Filed in Federal Court will Address Serious Issues at the Toa Alta Landfill in Puerto Rico
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EPA Accepting Clean School Bus Rebate Applications until August 19, 2022
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Monday, August 8, 2022
Media Advisory: EPA to highlight clean school bus grant funding to protect children’s health
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EPA fine leads to Hawaii DLNR acting on illegal cesspools
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EPA Highlights $4 Million Brownfields Investment in New Hampshire
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Friday, August 5, 2022
EPA Kicks Off Tour of Iconic Waters, Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act
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EPA Kicks Off Tour of Iconic Waters, Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act
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EPA Earns an “A+” on the Annual Small Business Procurement Scorecard
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EPA, IDEM Reach Settlement with Metalworking Lubricants Company on Clean Air Act Violations
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EPA Announces Initial Availability of $11 Million for Technical Assistance Centers to Support Underserved Communities
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Thursday, August 4, 2022
EPA инициирует предоставление сообществам новой информации о рисках, связанных с использованием этиленоксида
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EPA Phát Động Các Nỗ Lực Tham Gia Của Cộng Đồng về Thông Tin Rủi Ro do Ethylene Oxide Mới
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EPA Issues Guidance to Help Communities Locate Lead Pipes that can Contaminate Drinking Water
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وكالة حماية البيئة تدشن جهودًا للتحاور المجتمعي بشأن مخاطر أكسيد الإيثيلين
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Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Poor Air Quality Expected in Southern/Central New England on Thursday, August 4
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EPA to Oversee Deconstruction of the Powerhouse and Allen Mill in Hudson Falls, NY
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EPA, USDA Partner to Bolster Wastewater Infrastructure for San Carlos Apache Tribe, 10 Other U.S. Communities
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La EPA lanza esfuerzos de participación comunitaria según la nueva información de riesgo del óxido de etileno
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EPA Launches Community Engagement Efforts on New Ethylene Oxide Risk Information
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Tuesday, August 2, 2022
EPA Region 7 Approves Permit Modification at Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant in De Soto, Kansas
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EPA Highlights $19.7 Million Brownfields Investment in Maine
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EPA Awards Children’s Health Protection Grant to Milwaukee Public Schools
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Monday, August 1, 2022
FCA US LLC Sentenced in Connection with Conspiracy to Cheat U.S. Emissions Tests
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EPA Announces Flyovers in the Permian Basin in New Mexico and Texas
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EPA Awards Over $11 million for Projects Promoting a Healthy and Resilient Gulf of Mexico Watershed
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