Environmental Justice (EJ) Law Combined Stressor Summary (Current)

This dataset provides information on Environmental and Public Health Stressors for each block group in New Jersey to help implement the New Jersey Environmental Justice Law codified at N.J.S.A. 13:1D-157 et seq (EJ Law). Under the EJ Law “Environmental or public health stressors” means sources of environmental pollution, including, but not limited to, concentrated areas of air pollution, mobile sources of air pollution, contaminated sites, transfer stations or other solid waste facilities, recycling facilities, scrap yards, and point-sources of water pollution including, but not limited to, water pollution from facilities or combined sewer overflows; or conditions that may cause potential public health impacts, including, but not limited to, asthma, cancer, elevated blood lead levels, cardiovascular disease, and developmental problems in the overburdened community (OBC). The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (Department) has developed data for 26 individual stressors within these categories and a Combined Stressor Total, which is the sum of adverse stressors in each block group.本数据集收录新泽西州各街区组（block group）的环境与公共健康压力源相关信息，旨在助力落实编纂于新泽西州法典注释（N.J.S.A.）13:1D-157及后续条款的《新泽西州环境正义法》（Environmental Justice Law，下称EJ法）。根据该EJ法定义，“环境或公共健康压力源”包含两类范畴：其一为各类污染源，包括但不限于空气污染集中区域、移动空气污染源、污染场地、转运站或其他固体废物处置设施、回收设施、废料堆场，以及各类点源水污染（涵盖但不限于设施排放水污染或合流制下水道溢流引发的水污染）；其二为可能对负担过重社区（Overburdened Community，下称OBC）造成潜在公共健康影响的状况，包括但不限于哮喘、癌症、血铅水平升高、心血管疾病及发育异常。新泽西州环境保护部（下称“该部”）已针对上述类别开发26项单独压力源的配套数据，并设置了综合压力源总指数，即各街区组内所有不利压力源的累加值。