This repository explores the potential use of the EPA's Environmental Justice Screening (EJSCREEN) data in support of the Carceral Ecology project.
EJSCREEN provides 11 environmental indicators and demographic data by place, census block group, or geographic 'buffer' (radial area/polygon).
In addition to location indicators, EJSCREEN compares locations to state and national conditions via percentile ranks (e.g. a location may be in the 95th percentile nationally for a given indicator).
To explore whether EJSCREEN data will be useful for our efforts, we'll need to better understand each indicator, along with EJSCREEN's limitations and caveats; to be discussed/issues in this repo.