TOOLS DEVELOPMENT
PEDP is helping fill gaps left by the federal government’s retreat, creating powerful, community-driven tools that enable people to advance clean air, water, and climate protections. As PEDP builds, we are creating processes that are repeatable and blueprints for adoption at the state and federal level.
These tools help us to make sense of our environment and the potential impacts of investments in communities.
They also contain critical information about infrastructure that helps guide emergency response and recovery.
Environmental justice is a commitment to all communities having equal rights to fresh air, clean water, and access to green spaces. These tools were developed by the federal government to identify overburdened and underserved communities. PEDP restored access to these tools after they were removed by the federal government in January of 2025.
PEDP’s guide will help you better understand the environmental justice tools.
The CEJST was created by the White House Council on Environmental Quality and the U.S. Digital Service. It identifies disadvantaged communities based on a methodology developed by CEQ, using census tracts.
Version 2.2
New features
EJAM was developed by the Environmental Protection Agency to enable multi-site environmental analysis via generated reports using EJScreen data at the census block group level.
Version 3.2022.2
EJScreen was developed by the Environmental Protection Agency to provide comprehensive environmental, demographic, and other information at a national scale using census block groups.
Version 3.2022.2
The Future Risk Index was developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to model climate and economic risk under a variety of scenarios at the census tract level.
Version 1.0.0
“Grateful that I'm still able showcase these tools and use them for the value that they have to find information that I shared with community leaders to understand the impact of a proposed data center.”
These maps identify where investments are occurring and what supported projects are being developed in their areas, to engage more effectively with the projects, and to build long-term support.
The Local Investments Map was developed by the Department of Energy (DOE) and last updated in January 2025 to share commitments for local engagement and investment made by projects funded under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
Version 1.0
This map displays the environmental justice grants the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made through the Inflation Reduction Act since 2024. This map is not comprehensive and displays here a large number of the potentially affected grants.
Version 1.0
These tools provide access to environmental science and comprehensive infrastructure datasets that are useful for planning, advocacy, and emergency response and recovery.
This tool is a mirror of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Science Hub which hosts environmental science datasets so that they are discoverable and searchable for public use.
Version 1.0
The HIFLD Next catalog holds the infrastructure - and resilience - related datasets that were previously accessible through the Department of Homeland Security’s HIFLD Open Data Portal.
Version v1.0.0
