On May 15, EPA announced it was going to update to its EJScreen tool in June. According to EPA’s website, “EJScreen is EPA's environmental justice mapping and screening tool that provides EPA with a nationally consistent dataset and approach for combining environmental and demographic socioeconomic indicators.” EJScreen allows EPA and others to use the data to identify and map potentially overburdened communities. EPA says the June update will
- add two environmental indicators, noncompliance of drinking water systems and satellite-measured nitrogen dioxide air levels;
- add map layers for extreme heat, modeled drinking water service area boundaries, private wells and EPA environmental justice grants; and
- update its data, using 2018-2020 American Community Survey demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau and refreshed EPA data for environmental indicators.
EPA last updated EJScreen in June 2023.
