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Environmental Justice Resources

Tools and training to assist in considering environmental justice in your community.

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New Jersey State Resources

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EJMAP – This interactive mapping tool allows users to view overburdened communities, the criteria each block group meets, and the municipality for which the overburdened community is designated in accordance with the New Jersey Environmental Justice Law, N.J.S.A. 13:1D-157, as well as query addresses to determine if they are within an overburdened community. To learn more about EJMAP, watch this tutorial.
EJ Administrative Order Meeting Notices
Healthy Community Planning New Jersey (HCPNJ) – NJDEP in partnership with the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) website.
Potential Lead Exposure Mapping (PLEM) – Housing
“What’s in My Community” Air Quality Mapping Application (DEP Division of Air Quality)
NJGeoWeb (DEP Bureau of GIS)
This application provides users access to NJDEP GIS data on the internet. Users can view, query and analyze the Department’s GIS data with related environmental information.
DataMiner Enforcement Blotter (DEP Compliance and Enforcement)
DataMiner allows access to a variety of reports that will provide you with up to the minute results from many different environmental media and subjects. In order to provide flexibility, many of these reports require the user to enter some criteria, which will result in a customized document. Reports available for many categories including: COMPLIANCE & ENFORCEMENT and COMMUNITY RIGHT TO KNOW.
DataMiner Community Right to Know Reports – click “Search by Category – Community Right to Know” (DEP Compliance and Enforcement)
NJ FloodMapper – Rutgers Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis (CRSSA)
This website was designed and created to provide a user-friendly visualization tool for those who make coastal decisions. This website can be used to promote enhanced resilience and land use planning decisions with considerations for possible future conditions.
Site Remediation Community Corner
Site Remediation Immediate Environmental Concern (IEC) cases in a web mapping application.
Municipal Revitalization Index
The Municipal Revitalization Index (MRI) serves as the State’s official measure and ranking of municipal distress. The MRI ranks New Jersey’s municipalities according to eight separate indicators that measure diverse aspects of social, economic, physical, and fiscal conditions in each locality. The MRI is used as a factor in distributing certain “need based” funds.
New Jersey Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Network / New Jersey State Health Assessment Data (NJSHAD) System
New Jersey’s Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Program uses the New Jersey State Health Assessment Data (NJSHAD) system to disseminate Tracking Data. Information in NJ SHAD can be found in three forms: indicator reports, custom queries and written reports. Part of a National EPHT network, the NJ EPHT seeks to bring together data on health, human exposures and environmental hazards from the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP).
State Environmental Education Directory (SEEDS)
A repository of environmental education resources, including lesson plans and printable material.
CalEnviroScreen
A mapping tool that helps identify California communities that are most affected by many sources of pollution, and where people are often especially vulnerable to pollution’s effects, using environmental, health, and socioeconomic information to produce scores for every census tract in the state.

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United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

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EJ Screen – Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool.
EnviroMapper – The EnviroMapper for Envirofacts tool provides access to data from several EPA databases on environmental activities that may affect air, water, and land anywhere in the United States.
Facility Compliance Records Online – The Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) system allows residents and businesses can access facility compliance history online.
National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) – NATA is EPA’s ongoing review of air toxics in the United States, and was developed as a screening tool for state, local and tribal air agencies.

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State EJ Training Webinar Series

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