Environmental Health

In order to better meet the Agency’s responsibilities related to the protection of public health and the environment, EPA has developed a new environmental justice (EJ) mapping and screening tool called EJScreen. It is based on nationally consistent data and an approach that combines environmental and demographic indicators in maps and reports.

EnviroAtlas provides geospatial data, easy-to-use tools, and other resources related to ecosystem services, their chemical and non-chemical stressors, and human health.

Use othe Environmental Justice Dashboard to explore data on environmental exposures, community characteristics, and health burden.

The Bullard Center works to promote justice—environmental, climate, economic, energy, transportation, food and water and health justice—and eliminate structural inequality and systemic racism.

Global Greengrants Fund believes solutions to environmental harm and social injustice come from people whose lives are most impacted. Every day, our global network of people on the frontlines and donors comes together to support communities to protect their ways of life and our planet. Because when local people have a say in the health of their food, water, and resources, they are forces for change.

Environmental injustice, including the proliferation of climate change, systematically impacts communities of color and low-income communities in the U.S. and around the world.

The UC Center for Climate Justice seeks solutions that address the root causes of climate change and in doing so, simultaneously address a broad range of social, racial, and environmental injustices.

Plans, directs, and coordinates a program to protect the American people from environmental hazards. We promote a healthy environment and prevent premature death, avoidable illness and disability caused by non-infectious, non-occupational environmental and related factors.

Aims to connect environmental and health information as well as make it accessible and easy to share. This division oversees the Interactive Data Explorer, Environmental Justice Dashboard, and EJScreen.

The National Conference of State Legislatures tracks environmental health bills that have been introduced in the 50 states, territories and Washington, D.C. 2009 to 2022

This database includes energy-related state legislation covering utility regulation and grid development; coal, oil and gas; renewable energy and electric vehicles; and more. The database includes all introduced legislation from 2023 through the present and is updated weekly.

This database covers topics related to the environment and natural resources. It includes all introduced legislation from January 2023 to the present and is updated monthly as legislation is identified by NCSL staff.

An integrated, curated bibliographic database of global peer-reviewed research and gray literature on the science of climate impacts on human health.

EHP Publishing publishes Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) and the Journal of Health and Pollution (JHP) with support from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).