EJ Stats & Facts NE Ohio Environmental Injustice Solutions History of EJ Identifying Racial Injustice
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What are Latinos & White-Americans?
This group (answer 1) breathes 63% MORE pollution than they produce compared to this group (answer 2) which breathes 17% LESS.
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What is 90%?
The highest levels of toxic release in Ohio occurs in 14 counties which contains this percentage of the state's minority population.
100
What is EJSCREEN?
This platform, launched in 2015, makes data on environmental and demographic characteristics in the U.S. accessible to the public.
100
What is requiring federal funding recipients to operate in a nondiscriminatory manner?
In 2016, the EPA put the ECRCO in charge of Title VI oversight, to ensure this.
100
What is tree cover?
This resource filters the air, provides shade in communities, and can decrease temperatures up to 10 degrees Fahrenheit.
200
What is 250,000?
The number of additional deaths that climate change will cause per year, between 2030 and 2050.
200
What is the Cleveland Metropolitan Schools District?
Sam Allard demonstrated the correlation between the racial composition of K-8 schools and the number of students with elevated blood lead levels in this school district.
200
What is the Greenlink Equity Map (GEM)?
This new data mapping tool helps to identify and respond to disparities in energy burdens, climate risks, and pollution impact.
200
What is diversity & inclusion training?
In September 2020, the Trump administration cut funding for this program across the EPA.
200
What is nature deprivation?
Experiencing this, communities receive less air and water purification, climate mitigation, biodiversity and disease control, and opportunities for leisure and recreation.
300
What are hazardous waste landfill sites?
75% of these environmental hazards are in low-income communities of color.
300
What is 6 years?
African-Americans in Cleveland can expect to live this many years less, on average, than white residents.
300
What is The Federal Emergency Management Agency?
The acronym FEMA is used for this organization which works build, sustain and improve the nation's capability to handle all hazards.
300
What is the Memphis Sanitation Strike?
In February 1968, this event marked one of the first nation-wide acknowledgements of environmental injustice.
300
What is automobile fumes, smog, soot, oil smoke, ash, and construction dust?
Particulate matter made up by these emissions (name 2) has been declared by the EPA as a contributor to adverse health conditions.
400
What are Native Americans?
In 22 states, this community group exists in places with the most, or second-most energy development out of all racial and ethnic groups - suffering from disproportionate impacts of oil, gas, and coal development.
400
What is Lake Eerie?
Polluted stormwater runoff which flows off streets, parking lots, and farm fields impacts this part of Northeast Ohio the most.
400
What is Justice40?
This initiative implemented by the Biden-Harris administration works with FEMA to increase equity and community resilience.
400
What is 25 years?
In January, 2017 the EPA issued it's first and only formal finding of discrimination with the case of Flint, Michigan, this many years after the original complaint.
400
What is lead poisoning?
Failing to properly treat municipal water systems after changes water sources can cause this.
500
What is Louisiana?
In this state, a city which is 75% African American and 40% low income has to drink brown or yellow water deemed "safe" by the state.
500
What is energy burden?
Cleveland areas with high asthma rates overlap with places who have high burdens of this environmental resource, due to not being able to afford air conditioners or paying to run them when air quality is poor.
500
What is coal?
The Clean Power Plan was an effort initiated by the Obama administration to slow emissions and cut pollution of this resource.
500
What is Warren County, North Carolina?
The initial environmental justice spark came from a 1982 protest in this state.
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What is Black and low-income communities?
Corporate fines are lowest in these communities leading to more pollution and decreasing the value of existing homes, leading to more industrializing of the area.






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