This guide introduces the EPA EJScreen web application, explaining how to navigate maps, use analysis widgets for environmental and demographic data, and…
The EPA EJScreen User Guide provides instructions on using the Environmental Protection Agency's environmental justice mapping and screening tool. It covers accessing the web application at https://www.epa.gov/ejscreen and explains the tool's capabilities, including color-coded mapping of census block groups and generation of standard reports comparing selected areas to states or regions.
The guide details how to use various interface widgets for analysis. These include finding addresses or coordinates, exploring maps with different basemaps (street/satellite), viewing health disparities and climate change data, analyzing facility compliance, and creating community reports. It also describes tools for measuring distance/area, saving sessions, adding shapefiles, and printing maps.
To access the application, navigate to https://www.epa.gov/ejscreen.
The screening tool has Census block group resolution.
No, the EJScreen report is not available for American Samoa, CNMI, Guam, or the US Virgin Islands.