Despite the abundance of environmental justice data, it is often scattered across various federal, state, and local agencies, making access and interpretation difficult.

E2I2 creates community-specific GIS maps to highlight pollutants such as toxic air emissions from Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) facilities and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Our mapping overlays environmental data with socio-demographic factors (e.g., racial demographics, poverty levels) to visualize the communities most impacted. We also map health data, such as cancer and asthma rates to identify health disparities.

Ongoing GIS Mapping Projects:
Louisiana (Deep South Center for Environmental Justice): Mapping TRI and GHG emissions with socio-demographic indicators, social vulnerability index (SVI), and environmental burden models.
Texas (The Bullard Center, Texas Southern University): Analyzing pollution around 86 proposed petrochemical facilities.
Georgia (Healthy Communities of Augusta & Savannah Riverkeeper): Overlaying pollution data with racial and economic demographics to assess disproportionate impacts. 

See our work here:  Augusta at Risk – Savannah Riverkeeper