A screening tool the federal government is using to decide which neighborhoods have a disproportionate amount of pollution and climate risk could worsen air pollution exposure disparities along racial lines, according to a new analysis
the federal government is using to decide which neighborhoods have a disproportionate amount of pollution and risk of damage from climate change could worsen air pollution exposure disparities along racial lines, according to a new analysis.
Marshall and other researchers used the tool to model three 20-year scenarios: one where no action is taken to reduce emissions, one where emissions are aggressively reduced and one where emissions are very aggressively reduced. They found that while the tool is useful in eliminating disparities in air pollution exposure for low-income people and communities designated as disadvantaged, disparities along race and ethnicity lines weren’t improved and in some communities it was worsened.
In order to invest in communities that need the most help, the administration created the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool and opened it for public use in February 2022. The mapping tool uses a myriad of factors, like income, flood risk, air pollution exposure, asthma rates, to determine whether or not a census tract is disadvantaged.
That's not possible, though, according to environmental justice scholars and advocates who were not involved in the analysis of the tool. Robert Bullard, a member of the White House Environmental Justice Council and professor of urban planning and environmental policy at Texas Southern University, said the screening tool is a “work in progress” that needs to be refined to get more accurate and precise measures of environmental and climate burdens.
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