"On February 5th, EPA removed from its website the environmental justice mapping and screening tool, EJScreen, as well as several related web pages. These pages, which now cannot be accessed or simply say, “Sorry, but this web page does not exist,” include:
-The main landing page for EJScreen, including links to technical information, tutorials, and environmental justice efforts at EPA
-The page for using the EJScreen tool
-The page for downloading EJScreen data products for offline use
- The ArcGIS server that distributes the spatial data behind EJScreen.
These efforts coincide with EPA’s removal of several web pages related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) this January. In addition, EPA’s environmental justice page has been significantly altered and no longer links to EJScreen. At the time of this writing, however, several other EPA pages about environmental justice are still available.
Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP) released a reconstruction of Version 2.3 of EPA’s EJScreen. PEDP is committed to preserving and providing public access to federal environmental data. They are a volunteer coalition of several environmental, justice, and policy organizations, and others, including EDGI, who rely on federal datasets and tools to support critical research, advocacy, policy, and litigation work. Find out more about their work here."
The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative team had the story February 12, 2025.
SEE ALSO:
Usable Reconstruction of EJScreen v. 2.3 (Public Environmental Data Partners)
How To Volunteer For Data Rescue (Public Environmental Data Partners)
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