Update | June 2022

EnviroAtlas Update Bulletin

Keep up with the latest in EnviroAtlas news

IN THIS UPDATE

•	New Lesson Plan

•	Upcoming Webinar: June 15th

•	Updates to Featured Collections

•	New Publications

New Lesson Plan

EnviroAtlas is proud to announce the release of Considering Environmental Justice in Building a
Greenway, adapted from the original Building a Greenway: A Case Study lesson plan. The new lesson
plan incorporates the use of EJSCREEN in tandem with EnviroAtlas to encourage equity in the decision-
making process. Both lesson plans are publicly available from the Building a Greenway educational
materials page.


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Upcoming Webinar: June 15th


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EPA Tools & Resources Webinar

Understanding Environmental Justice through two
EPA tools: EJSCREEN and EnviroAtlas

Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 3:00 to 4:00 PM ET

REGISTER HERE

Environmental justice (EJ) is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement
of all people regardless of rate, color, national origin or income with respect
to the development implementation and enforcement of environmental
laws, regulations and policies. This goal will be achieved when everyone
enjoys:

•	The same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards,

•	Equal access to environmental assets, and

•	Equal access to the decision making process to have a healthy
environment in which to live, learn and work.

It is vital that as a society we fix the problems created by decades of
environmental injustice. Understanding patterns of how different sectors of
the population are impacted inequitably by environmental issues is a
necessary step towards a solution. EPA has developed tools that can be used
to help users understand and address Ei, This webinar will examine two of
those tools—EJScreen and EnviroAtlas—including how they can be used
together, EJScreen is an Ei mapping and screening tool that provides a
nationally consistent dataset and approach for combining environmental and
demographic indicators. EJScreen users choose a geographic area, and the
tool then provides demographic and environmental information for that
area. EnviroAtlas is a data-rich, web-based decision support tool that
combines maps, analysis tools, downloadable data, and informational
resources, It is used by states, tribes, communities and individuals to help
inform policy and planning decisions that impact the places where we live,
learn, work and play,

EJScreen and EnviroAtlas can be used together, and we will demonstrate how to use EJScreen data in EnviroAtlas
and vice versa. We will also show how the two tools were used together in a lesson plan. Considering Environmental
Justice in Building a Greenway: A Case Study. This webinar will provide overviews and live demonstrations of both
tools with a focus on EJ issues.



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EJSCREEN and EnviroAtlas. hosted by the EPA Tools & Resources Webinar series. For registration
questions, please contact tools resources webinar@eDa.gov or the webinar series coordinator at

matthews.lisa@eDa.gov.

Updates to Featured Collections


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Each of the EnviroAtlas featured collections now include a collection-specific direct link in the description
to enhance ease of access. Each collection is linked here:

•	Agricultural Erosion and Sediment-Impaired Waterways

•	APA Metrics for Planning Healthy Communities

•	Building a Greenwav: A Case Study

•	Community Resilience: An Assessment of Assets. Vulnerabilities and Natural Hazards

•	EnviroAtlas for Brownfields

•	Nitrogen Inputs to Watersheds

•	Urban Heat Islands and Vulnerable Communities in Portland. OR

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Considering Environmental Justice in Building a Greenway lesson plan. Several maps have been added
to the collection from EJSCREEN: other maps from the Smart Location Database (SLD) were updated to
reflect more recent data.

Community Resilience

The community resilience featured collection was updated to reflect more up to date schools and
hospitals point location data, as well as updated SLD street intersection density maps.

Explore these updates in the Interactive Map »

New Publications


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Dasymetric Data

Baynes, J., Neale, A., and Hultgren, T.: Improving intelligent dasymetric mapping population density
estimates at 30-meter resolution for the conterminous United States by excluding uninhabited areas,
Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss, [preprint], https://doi.orq/10.5194/essd-2021 -277, accepted, 2022.

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resources related to ecosystem services, their stressors, and

human health.

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