Environmental Justice
These resources provide guidance about the environmental justice provisions of the IRA and the IIJA.
Featured Resources & Funding Opportunities
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Assessing & Improving Equity in State Planning
This equity evaluation process is designed to help identify ways to improve equity in planning, decision making, and grantmaking.
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Energy Justice Mapping Tool - Disadvantaged Communities Reporter
This tool allows users to explore and produce reports on census tracts that the U.S. Department of Energy has categorized as disadvantaged communities, pursuant to Executive Order 14008 - Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. This executive order created the Justice40 Initiative, which established a goal that 40% of the overall benefits of certain Federal investments flow to disadvantaged communities.
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Funding Opportunities for Climate Change & Environmental Justice Programs in Maryland
This document outlines Funding Opportunities for Climate Change & Environmental Justice Programs in Maryland. From the Caucus of African American Leaders.
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Charging Toward Justice: How States Can Lead on Racial and Economic Equity through the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program
Analyzes how states can incorporate equity and Justice40 principles in their National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) plans to inform policymakers ahead of the Federal Highway Administration’s August 1 deadline for states to submit revised plans to the federal government.
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Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act Justice40 Opportunities
Outlines Environmental Justice / Justice 40 options in the IIJA bill - energy, transit, buildings, workforce development, grid infrastructure, methane emissions reduction, recycling, clean water
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Justice Solutions: Our Analysis of the Inflation Reduction Act
Review of the Inflation Reduction Act that is critical of spending priorities, and highlights shortcomings of the legislation and how that will impact implementation