State Resources
NV Division of Environmental Protection
- Learn about Nevada’s clean cars initiative
- Learn about Nevada’s sustainable materials management programs
- See if lead has been detected at a childcare facility
Division of Welfare and Supportive Services
- Apply for energy assistance to help with home heating or cooling costs
- Get assistance with employment and job training services
Nevada Housing Division
- Apply for assistance from the Weatherization Program to improve home energy conservation of your home
Federal Resources
Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Justice (EJ) Program
- Ensuring fair access and meaningful involvement for all related to environmental laws and policies
EPA’s EJ Grants Program
- Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers (EJ TCTAC)
- Provides grant funding to establish technical assistance centers across the nation for training and assistance on writing grant proposals, navigating federal systems and managing grant funding. Apply though October 4, 2022
- Environmental Justice Small Grants
- Help communities understand and address exposure to multiple environmental harms and risks. Funding up to $100,000.
- Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem Solving Cooperative Agreements
- Provides funding for projects that address local environmental and public health issues within an affected community.
- State Environmental Justice Cooperative Agreements
- Provides funding to support and/or create model state activities that lead to measurable environmental or public health results in communities disproportionately burdened by environmental harms and risks.
National EJ Public Meetings
- National Environmental Justice Community Engagement Calls
- Inform the public about EPA’s environmental justice work and enhance opportunities to maintain an open dialogue with environmental justice advocates.
EPA EJ Listservs
- Subscribe to EPA’s Environmental Justice listserv by sending a blank email to: join-epa-ej@lists.epa.gov
- Subscribe to EPA Region 9’s EJ Program listserv by sending a request to capilla.morgan@epa.gov
Resources from other EPA programs
- Smart Growth Technical Assistance Programs
- Various technical assistance to help communities learn about and implement smart growth approaches.
- Superfund Redevelopment Program
- Technical assistance to communities to support safe and productive redevelopment of Superfund sites and surrounding impacted areas.
- Brownfields Technical Assistance, Training and Research
- Technical assistance is provided to communities, regional entities, and nonprofits to address brownfields (properties contaminated by hazardous substances) challenges.
- Financial Technical Assistance and Tools for Water Infrastructure
- The Water Infrastructure and Resiliency Finance Center provides financial technical assistance to communities related to drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure projects.
- Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) Funding
- Funds grants and rebates that protect human health and improve air quality by reducing harmful emissions from diesel engines.
- DERA Tribal and Insular Area Grants
- The DERA 2022 Tribal and Insular Area Request for Applications is now open (August 4 – October 26, 2022) with $8M to award.
- Clean School Bus Program
- $5 billion over the next five years (FY 2022-2026) to replace existing school buses with zero-emission and low-emission models.
Environmental Health
- Improving Indoor Air Quality
- Find information on improving indoor air environments.
- Reducing Asthma disparities
- States are negotiating with the Federal Government to use Medicaid funds to cover asthma trigger remediation work, as well as outreach and education. Examples of recent developments in California.
- Environmental Education Program
- Support environmental education to increase public awareness and knowledge about environmental issues or problems.
- Protecting Children’s Health
- Information about children’s health, the environment, and programs tailored for children, parents, teachers, caregivers, healthcare providers and children health partners.
- Western States Pediatric Environmental health Specialty Unit (PEHSU)
- A network of 100+ physicians that provide education and consultation to health care providers, parents, and public health officials about exposures and potential effects. Contact: pehsu@ucf.edu or 415-206-4083 or toll free 1-866-827-3478
- National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC)
- Objective, science-based information about pesticides and pesticide-related topics to enable people to make informed decisions about pesticides and their use.
- For assistance: Mon– Fri, 8am-12pm PST, 800-858-7378. npic@ace.orst.edu.
- Subscribe to their notification list in English or Spanish
- Safer Choice Program
EJ-Relevant tools
- EJScreen: Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool
- A web-based tool that provides EJ screening and mapping using environmental and demographic data to highlight areas where vulnerable populations may be disproportionately impacted by pollution and other environmental stressors.
- Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) and ECHO Notify
- Search for facilities in your community to assess their compliance with environmental regulations.
- Search for Facilities
- Investigate Pollution Sources
- Search for EPA Enforcement Cases
- Examine and Create Enforcement-Related Maps
- Analyze Trends in Compliance & Enforcement Data
- Search for facilities in your community to assess their compliance with environmental regulations.
- Cleanups in My Community
- Map and list hazardous waste cleanup locations and grant areas, and drill down to details about those cleanups and grants and other, related information.
- NEPAssist
- A web-based tool that facilitates the environmental review process and project planning in relation to environmental considerations.
- AirData
- Air quality data collected at outdoor monitors across the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U. S. Virgin Islands.
- AirNow
- Reports air quality using the official U.S. Air Quality Index (AQI), including a Wildfires Landing Page
- Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)
- Resource for learning about toxic chemical releases and pollution prevention activities reported by industrial and federal facilities.
- AirToxScreen
- Provides information about health risks from air toxics.
- How’s My Waterway
- Provides the general public with information about the condition of their local waters based on data provided by states, federal, tribal, and local agencies.
United States Department of Agriculture
- Community Forest Program
- A competitive grant program that provides financial assistance to tribal entities, local governments, and qualified conservation non-profit organizations to acquire and establish community forests that provide community benefits.
- Emerging Watershed Protection Program
- Allows communities to quickly address serious and long-lasting damages to infrastructure and land, including adverse impacts resulting from natural disasters.
- Rural Development Program
- Fifty financial assistance programs for a variety of rural applications.
- Multifamily Housing Programs
- Assists rural property owners through loans, loan guarantees, and grants to develop and rehabilitate properties for low-income, elderly, disabled individuals, families, and domestic farm laborers.
Department of Commerce
- Economic Development Administration Technical Assistance Program
- Administers programs to help promote economic development and alleviate unemployment, underemployment, and outmigration in distressed regions.
Department of Housing Urban Development (HUD)
- Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes (OLHCHH)
- Develops cost-effective ways to reduce lead-based paint hazards and enforces HUD’s lead-based paint regulations.
- Tribal Housing
- Various grants are available for tribal housing and community development to be used for developing, maintaining, and operating affordable housing in safe and healthy environments.
- Environmental & Historic Preservation Guidance for FEMA Grant Applications
- Ensures federal grant monies are used in a manner consistent with federal laws pertaining to the environment and historic preservation, as well as consideration of the effects to, and protection and enhancement of, natural and cultural resources.
- FEMA factsheet for EO12898 – Environmental Justice
- A fact sheet explaining FEMA’s commitment and consideration to Environmental justice impacts as required by the executive order.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network
- Brings together health data and environmental data from national, state, and city sources.
- Environmental Justice Dashboard
- Health and Heat Tracker
- Health Impact Assessment
- Evaluates the potential positive and negative public health effects of a plan, project, or policy before it is approved, built, or implemented.
Other Tools and Resources
- Federal Agency Equity Action Plans
- Submitted by over 90 Federal agencies, these Equity Action Plans represent specific agency commitments to redress inequities and to promote equitable outcomes in communities.
- Community Commons
- Interactive mapping, networking, and learning utility for the broad-based healthy, sustainable, and livable communities’ movement.
- Stop Pests
- Group of science educators, seeking to improve pest control in affordable housing.
These resources are also available as a Google Doc for easy sharing, found here.
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