ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE RESOURCES
Start tracking toxics in your community with this list of onlines resources, books, research, data, documents, and links to organizations.
DATA AND DOCUMENTS
Executive Order 12898 - Full Text
Federal Actions To Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations
Still Toxic After All These Years [PDF]
A February, 2007 report on Air Quality and Environmental Justice in the San Francisco Bay Area, from the Bay Area Environmental Health Collaborative (BAEHC).
"Some of the Bay Area's leading environmental justice and community health organizations came together with researchers from the Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community of UC Santa Cruz (CJTC) to help document the state of environmental disparity in the Bay Area. The results, as detailed in the report, are clear: environmental inequality is unfortunately alive and well, a fact that threatens the wellness of the most affected communities."
CALIFORNIA POLLUTION MAPPING AND DATA RESOURCES ONLINE
Scorecard
Scorecard makes it easy to find information about toxic chemicals: where they come from in your community, and what their human health effects are. Scorecard provides detailed information on more than 11200 chemicals, and tracks TRI chemicals using forty different ranking criteria...
PAN Pesticides Database
The PAN Pesticides Database contains data about current toxicity and regulatory information for pesticides.
US EPA Environmental Justice Geographic Assessment Tool
View Superfund sites, air and water monitoring, demographic information, political boundaries, and other overlays by city, county, state, ZIP code, watershed, EPA region, latitude/longitude, facility, or address.
Petroleum Related Pollution Maps for California
Maps of petroleum related pollution in California, the SF Bay area, and the Los Angeles area.
Geotracker (California State Water Resources Control Board)
Interactive mapper that emphasizes data layers for Leaking Underground Fuel Tanks (LUFTs) and public drinking water wells. Other available data layers include Underground Storage Tanks (USTs), roads, topography and watersheds.
Community Health Air Pollution Information System
(California Air Resources Board)
Interactive mapper allows one to identify sources of air pollution emissions within a specified geographic location. Select a county, region, or zip code; or use the interactive mapper to zoom to an area. The combined contribution of cars, trucks, industrial and commerical facilities, and other air pollution sources are mapped. Tools are provided that summarize statistics for an area of interest. From the CHAPIS map there are also links to other data sources, such as tools to query the statewide emission inventory database and the network of air monitoring stations.
GEOSPATIAL TOOLS ONLINE
NASA World Wind
"World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there."
The California Spatial Information Library
BOOKS
Dumping in Dixie by Robert D. Bullard
Landmark book on race, class, and environmental quality.
Farewell, Promised Land
by Robert Dawson and Gray Brechin
From the Ground Up
by Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster
From the Ground Up traces the roots of the environmental justice movement in the United States. It examines the historical and contemporary causes of environmental racism in towns like Kettleman City, California; and Chester, Pennsylvania, and the impacts of these struggles on individuals, communities, and environmental policy.
Start tracking toxics in your community with this list of onlines resources, books, research, data, documents, and links to organizations.
DATA AND DOCUMENTS
Executive Order 12898 - Full Text
Federal Actions To Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations
Still Toxic After All These Years [PDF]
A February, 2007 report on Air Quality and Environmental Justice in the San Francisco Bay Area, from the Bay Area Environmental Health Collaborative (BAEHC).
"Some of the Bay Area's leading environmental justice and community health organizations came together with researchers from the Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community of UC Santa Cruz (CJTC) to help document the state of environmental disparity in the Bay Area. The results, as detailed in the report, are clear: environmental inequality is unfortunately alive and well, a fact that threatens the wellness of the most affected communities."
CALIFORNIA POLLUTION MAPPING AND DATA RESOURCES ONLINE
Scorecard
Scorecard makes it easy to find information about toxic chemicals: where they come from in your community, and what their human health effects are. Scorecard provides detailed information on more than 11200 chemicals, and tracks TRI chemicals using forty different ranking criteria...
PAN Pesticides Database
The PAN Pesticides Database contains data about current toxicity and regulatory information for pesticides.
US EPA Environmental Justice Geographic Assessment Tool
View Superfund sites, air and water monitoring, demographic information, political boundaries, and other overlays by city, county, state, ZIP code, watershed, EPA region, latitude/longitude, facility, or address.
Petroleum Related Pollution Maps for California
Maps of petroleum related pollution in California, the SF Bay area, and the Los Angeles area.
Geotracker (California State Water Resources Control Board)
Interactive mapper that emphasizes data layers for Leaking Underground Fuel Tanks (LUFTs) and public drinking water wells. Other available data layers include Underground Storage Tanks (USTs), roads, topography and watersheds.
Community Health Air Pollution Information System
(California Air Resources Board)
Interactive mapper allows one to identify sources of air pollution emissions within a specified geographic location. Select a county, region, or zip code; or use the interactive mapper to zoom to an area. The combined contribution of cars, trucks, industrial and commerical facilities, and other air pollution sources are mapped. Tools are provided that summarize statistics for an area of interest. From the CHAPIS map there are also links to other data sources, such as tools to query the statewide emission inventory database and the network of air monitoring stations.
GEOSPATIAL TOOLS ONLINE
NASA World Wind
"World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there."
The California Spatial Information Library
BOOKS
Dumping in Dixie by Robert D. Bullard
Landmark book on race, class, and environmental quality.
Farewell, Promised Land
by Robert Dawson and Gray Brechin
From the Ground Up
by Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster
From the Ground Up traces the roots of the environmental justice movement in the United States. It examines the historical and contemporary causes of environmental racism in towns like Kettleman City, California; and Chester, Pennsylvania, and the impacts of these struggles on individuals, communities, and environmental policy.
