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EPA Environmental Justice Program

Links to:

EPA EJ Home Page (contains definition of EJ and links to EJ-related government entities) http://www.epa.gov/compliance/environmentaljustice/

Links to other EPA EJ-related pages
http://www.epa.gov/ebtpages/envienvironmentaljustice.html

EPA EJ resources
http://oaspub.epa.gov/webimore/aboutepa.ebt4?search=10,184,

Environmental Justice Bibliography

Links to:

Environmental Justice Database (extensive listings)
http://www.msue.msu.edu/msue/imp/modej/masterej.html

Environmental Racism and Biased Methods of Risk Assessment
(Good background on history of EJ movement and adoption of Federal program)
http://www.fplc.edu/RISK/vol7/winter/wigley.htm

The Environmental Justice Movement and Activists

Links to:

Clark Atlanta University – Environmental Justice Resource Center
Comprehensive collection of materials, including nationwide directory of EJ organizations by state (go to Resources pull-down box and click on People of Color Directory -- available in PDF).
http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/

University of Massachusetts at Amherst – Political Economy Research Institute (PERI).
The New Environmental Activists: Fighting Pollution, Poverty, and Racism by Building Natural Assets. http://www.umass.edu/peri/research.html
[Last item in section on “Development, Peacebuilding and the Environment” ]

Analysis of distribution of pollution controlled for race and income demographics:

Links to:

Ash, Michael and T. Robert Fetter, Who Lives on the Wrong Side of the Environmental Tracks? Evidence from the EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators Model, 2002 Working Paper Number 50.
http://www.umass.edu/peri/pdfs/WP50.pdf

Bouwes, Nicolaas W., Steven M. Hassur, and Mark D. Shapiro, Empowerment Through Risk-Related Information: EPA's Risk Screening Environmental Indicators Project, 2001, Working Paper Number 18.
http://www.umass.edu/peri/pdfs/WP18.pdf

EPA Databases

Links to:

Toxic Release Inventory (TRI)
“Begun in 1988, the Toxics Release Inventory contains information on releases of nearly 650 chemicals and chemical categories from industries including manufacturing, metal and coal mining, electric utilities, and commercial hazardous waste treatment, among others.” (TRI is the database on which the PERI studies in 4. above are based.) An important research tool but not user-friendly and the data is 2 years old. See:“Browse TRI topics on left side of page http://www.epa.gov/tri/

Factors to Consider When Using TRI Data [Read this before using]
http://www.epa.gov/tri/tridata/tri01/press/FactorsToConPDF.pdf

Background and purposes of Community Right-to-Know Act which established the TRI http://www.epa.gov/tri/whatis.htm

Environmental Defense Toxic Scorecard (user-friendly form of TRI)
http://www.scorecard.org/

Envirofacts Data Warehouse
Compiles TRI and other data (air, water, waste permits; brownfield sites) geographically and allows you to query the data and get maps and reports
http://www.epa.gov/enviro/