Public beta - This website will be continuously updated
Limited data sources — This tool currently includes 16 datasets. Over time, datasets could be added, updated, or removed. The datasets come from a variety of sources based on availability, quality, and relevance to environmental, energy, and climate issues. Each dataset has limitations, such as how recently the data was updated.
About the screening tool
On January 27, 2021, President Biden directed the Council on
Environmental Quality (CEQ) to create a climate and economic
justice screening tool. The purpose of the tool is to provide
socioeconomic, environmental, and climate information and data to
help inform decisions that may affect disadvantaged communities.
The tool is designed to assist Federal agencies in identifying
disadvantaged communities for the purposes of the Justice40
Initiative.
About the Justice40 Initiative
The goal of the Justice40 Initiative is for 40 percent of
benefits of Federal programs in seven key areas to flow to
disadvantaged communities. These seven key areas are: climate
change, clean energy and energy efficiency, clean transit,
affordable and sustainable housing, training and workforce
development, remediation of legacy pollution, and clean water
infrastructure.
Read more about the Justice40 Initiative in President Biden’s Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.
Federal program managers
Download the screening tool’s draft list of prioritized communities and information on how to use it for your program in the future on the data and methodology page.
Community members
Find your community or communities that you may be familiar with and check their prioritization information on the map.
Send Feedback
Have ideas about how to acknowledge the on-the-ground experiences of your community?
Join the open source community
The screening tool’s code is open source, which means it is available for the public to view and contribute to. Anyone can view and contribute on GitHub.