E2I2 provides ongoing technical assistance to community partners on a variety of projects. For example, we analyzed and provided data for the May 2023 toxins and pollution report “The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same. Living and Dying in Cancer Alley” supported by the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Beyond Petrochemicals campaign.
People often do not think about the connection between climate change, pollution, and maternal health. However, exposure to high temperatures during pregnancy, including in the early stages of pregnancy, are associated with premature birth and stillbirth. Also, exposure to poor air quality while pregnant is linked to low birthweight and preterm birth. Poor air quality […]
The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ) was awarded a grant to establish the creation of the Environmental Justice (EJ) Data Action Portal, an interactive online portal to provide environmental justice organizations the ability to access environmental health data relevant to the needs of their communities. E2I2 is a sub-contractor to Intellectual Concepts, LLC […]
Data about pollution and climate change is more abundant than ever, but so are the challenges in finding community-centered data, understanding the usefulness and limitations of data, and how to translate the data into local level action. Power Over Pollution is E2I2’s novel environmental health data literacy training program that helps Environmental Justice communities access, […]
This first of its kind, community monitoring project is funded in part by the Environmental Protection Agency. E2I2 is installing tailored, solar-powered, community-owned air pollution monitoring sensors to collect real time, continuous pollution data in St John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. The sensors are calibrated to collect data on PM 2.5, ethylene oxide, and chloroprene […]
There is more environmental justice data available than ever before. However, the data lives in different locations on the internet and among different federal, state, and local agencies. It is often hard to access and to understand. To help communities access and use data, E2I2 provides communities with targeted GIS maps for a variety of […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to offer great benefits. However, there are equity concerns, including unequal access to AI tools and white-biased AI tools, data privacy concerns, and lack of representation from historically marginalized groups. To ensure equitable access to AI technology for environmental justice (EJ) communities and to ensure that AI meets the […]