Carbon League Community Change Grant 2024 - North Lawndale

The Justice40 Atlas is a national measure of social and environmental factors that contribute to our understanding of environmental justice and the vulnerability of communities. includes a collection of maps of communities that are disadvantaged according to    Justice40 Initiative criteria   in the U.S. and its territories.  We invite you to discover and investigate these communities using the   Justice40 Atlas  .

This map assesses and identifies communities that are disadvantaged according to updated Justice40 Initiative criteria in the U.S. and its territories. Census tracts that meet the Version 1.0 criteria are shaded in semi-transparent blue colors.

Source:    Justice40 November 2022 Version 1.0  

To better understand the identification of energy justice communities, we took data from the   Environmental Protection Agency   (EPA)   Environmental Justice (EJ) Screen  and   Argonne National Laboratory  's   Geospatial Energy Mapper (GEM)  . This allows for a greater, block-by-block understanding of the relevant health, social, and economic factors surrounding energy justice. Explore above to see maps of these metrics.

EJScreen is an environmental justice mapping and screening tool that provides EPA with a nationally consistent dataset and approach that combines environmental and demographic indicators in maps and reports. This can help to highlight geographic areas and the extent to which they may be candidates for further review, including additional consideration, analysis, or outreach. The tools also allow users to explore locations at a detailed geographic level, across broad areas, or across the entire nation. For this Story Map we will focus on the detailed geographic area of North Lawndale and Little Village. We invite you to explore other cities or the nation as a whole using the   EJScreen App.  

This section of the story map features a collection of data from the EJScreen. The data was sourced from     https://ejscreen.epa.gov/mapper/     using the ArcGIS REST endpoint.     Learn more about Environmental Justice at EPA.