Summary

The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) seeks to obtain digital services to continue development and improvements of three public data products, known collectively as Environmental Justice Information Services (the EJIS). These products are: the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST), the Environmental Justice (EJ) Scorecard (the Scorecard), and EnvironmentalJustice.gov (EJ.gov or the EJ Website).

Problem and Solution

CEQ required assistance in first migrating content from the current static site, to environmentaljustice.gov (ej.gov or EJ Website). Next, and more critical, was to improve and update data behind the EJ Scorecard tool. Finally, the CEJST tool needed to be updated with the latest demographics data and update to align to changes in the data to ensure EJ Policy can be applied accordingly. This is the largest part of the effort to ensure an updated data pipeline, updated indicators, and analyze and validate all data is accurate as well as incorporate minor UI CEJST tool improvements.

Outcome and Benefit

The updated EJIS Tools are now supported by the latest data in the site, Scorecard and tool to better support and describe the impacts and benefits of more than $600 billion in federal investments. Per the Press Release/Fact Sheet, more than 500 federal programs across 19 federal agencies are being reimagined and transformed to meet the Justice40 goal. Agencies are using the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool to identify disadvantaged communities.