EJSCREEN or the Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool is a free, interactive tool that was created to provide demographic and environmental information to identify vulnerable communities that are disproportionately impacted by environmental hazards. Created by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the tool is meant to be a one-stop shop for anything and everything environmental justice and combines EJ indexes, environmental indicators, and demographic indicators to display side-by-side information.
Main Features
- Uses 11 environmental factors, 7 demographic factors, and a variety of environmental justice indexes
- Compare two maps in a single frame
- Uses up-to-date data
- Search the Geoplatform to use use/add ArcGIS Online data
- Download the displayed data
Launch the Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (EJSCREEN)
Authors and Creators
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)