Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice

Demographic data tools help users visualize and analyze demographic information. These tools typically allow users to view data such as population density, age distribution, income levels and other relevant statistics. Click on the links below to access each resource.

• U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: QuickFacts provides statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more.
• Mapping L.A. (by the Los Angeles Times): This re­gion­al view is a portal to in­di­vidu­al maps and stat­ist­ics for 158 cit­ies and un­in­cor­por­ated places and 114 neigh­bor­hoods with­in the city of Los Angeles.
• Los Angeles Almanac: This source is devoted to providing statistical and narrative information about the people, places and stories that make up Los Angeles County.
• If you're not able to find what you are looking for, try searching a specific city's web page. These usually end with .gov in the url. 

Mapping tools for environmental justice are powerful tools that help analyze and address environmental disparities and inequities within communities. These tools use geographic information system (GIS) technology to visualize and analyze data related to environmental hazards, pollution, socioeconomic factors, and other relevant information. Click on the links below to access each mapping tool.

• California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment: Online maps including Fish Advisories and CalEnviroScreen, information about chemicals, documents, fact sheets and reports.
• EJScreen: Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool: EJScreen is an EPA's environmental justice mapping and screening tool that provides EPA with a nationally consistent dataset and approach for combining environmental and demographic socioeconomic indicators.
• ECHO: Enforcement and Compliance History Online: Search for facilities, investigate pollution sources, search for EPA Enforcement Cases and examine and create enforcement-related maps.
• Environmental Justice Atlas: The EJAtlas is a work in progress. Newly documented cases and information are continuously added to the platform. However, many are still undocumented and new ones arise. Please note that the absence of data does not indicate the absence of conflict.

This section includes video and film content on environmental justice.

From the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability:

From The Atlantic:

The videos below are available to stream from Alexander Street: Academic Video Online. Viewing may require remote login: