Data Science for Environmental Justice PBL Module: Air Pollution Dataset

This is a PBL module on Air Pollution to be used in an introductory environmental science course to motivate students to analyze related environmental justice issues.US EPA data on "State EJScreen Data at the Block Group Level" (EJSCREEN_2023_BG_StatePct_with_AS_CNMI_GU_VI.csv) was downloaded from https://www.epa.gov/ejscreen/download-ejscreen-data on December 20, 2023.This data was processed/cleaned using the included R script - major changes (see the R script for full changes):The dataset was subset for the state of North Carolina.Only a subset of the variables were retained.Any row with missing information was removed. This reduced the number of rows, for North Carolina, from 7111 to 6494.Columns with percent values were converted from decimals to percentages.An additional, summarized dataset, summarized by county, is provided: we report the sum for ACSTOTPOP, AREALAND, and AREAWATER, and the mean for the other variablesThe data dictionary is included.PBL Module: TBAInstructor Notes: TBAThe following files are included:Data Dictionary: Data_Dictionary_EJSCREEN_2023_BG_Columns.pdfProcessed Dataset for North Carolina: DS4EJ_EJScreen_State_BGLevel_NC.csvSummarized Dataset for North Carolina (summarized by county): DS4EJ_EJScreen_State_BGLevel_NC_Summarized_By_County.csvR Script for Data Processing: DSEJ_data_cleaning_EJSCREEN.rOriginal Dataset from which Data was Extracted for North Carolina: DS4EJ_EJSCREEN_2023_BG_StatePct_with_AS_CNMI_GU_VI.csv<br>