Extracted Data from: Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool 2.0 (CEJST / Justice40 2.0)

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This tool is called the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool. The tool uses datasets that are indicators of burdens in eight categories: climate change, energy, health, housing, legacy pollution, transportation, water and wastewater, and workforce development. The tool uses this information to identify communities that are experiencing these burdens. These are the communities that are disadvantaged because they are marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by pollution.
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CEQ will update the tool, after reviewing public feedback, research, and the availability of new data.
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Version 2.0 Release update - Dec 20, 2024
New & Improved
Added the low income burden to American Samoa, Guam, the Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Tracts in these territories that are completely surrounded by disadvantaged tracts and exceed an adjusted low income threshold are now considered disadvantaged
Additionally, census tracts in these four Territories are now considered disadvantaged if they meet the low income threshold only, because these Territories are not included in the nationally-consistent datasets on environmental and climate burdens used in the tool
Updated the data in the workforce development category to the Census Decennial 2020 data for the U.S. territories of Guam, Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa
Made improvements to the low income burden to better identify college students before they are excluded from that burden’s percentile
Census tracts that were disadvantaged under version 1.0 continue to be considered as disadvantaged in version 2.0
Technical Fixes
For tracts that have water boundaries, e.g. coastal or island tracts, the water boundaries are now excluded from the calculation to determine if a tract is 100% surrounded by disadvantaged census tracts
User Interface Improvements
Added the ability to search by census tract ID
The basemap has been updated to use a free, open source map