Rural Environmental Justice Resource Collection
This collection of resources provides links to community tools, funding opportunities, educational/training assistance, and case studies to support rural communities in fostering environmental, economic, and health prosperity.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Environmental Justice (EJ)
- EJSCREEN Tool
- College/Underserved Community Partnership Program (CUPP)
- NEPAssist
- Deconstruction Tools for Tribes and Rural Communities
- Checklist for Assessing the Feasibility of Building Deconstruction for Tribes and Rural Communities
- Building Material Reuse and Recycling Estimating Tool
- Petroleum Brownfields Action Plans
- Brownfields Redevelopment
- C-FERST Community-Focused Exposure and Risk Screening Tool
- T-FERST Tribal-Focused Environmental Risk and Sustainability Tool
- Housing and Urban Development (HUD)-Department of Transportation (DOT)-Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Partnership for Sustainable Communities
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America
- Local Food Compass
- New Farmers Discovery Tool
- InterTribal Technical Assistance Program
- Rural Information Center
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
- Office of Rural Health Policy
- ToxMap - National Library of Medicine
- Rural Health Information Hub
U.S. Department of the Interior
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Environmental Justice
- Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) EJ Page
U.S. Department of Labor
- Environmental Proctection Agency Environmental Justice Grants and Resources
- Housing and Urban Development (HUD)-Department of Transportation (DOT)-Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Partnership for Sustainable Communities
- Federal Resources for Sustainable Rural Communities Guide
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Environmental Justice
- U.S. Department of the Interior
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Tribal Wildlife Grants
- U.S. Department of Labor
- Environmental Protection Agency The Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving (CPS) Cooperative Agreement Program
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Farm Service Agency: Farmer Outreach and Education
- Natural Resource Conservation Service: Cultural Resources Training
- National Agricultural Library
- Environmental Justice search in PubAg
- U.S. Health and Human Services National Library of Medicine
- The Environmental Justice Interagency Working Group (EJ IWG)
- Promising Practices for EJ Methodologies in NEPA Reviews
- Emerging Tools for Local Problem Solving – Success stories and tools emerging from the environmental justice small grants program.
- Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields to Healthfields (B2H):
- Brownfields to HealthFields: Championing the Triple Bottom Line (Health, Environment, and Economic) for Community Infrastructure YouTube Video Time: 1:26:53
- Appalachia [891.19KB PDF file]
- Bridgeport
- California Los Angeles Watershed (Compton)
- Florida
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- U.S. Department of the Interior
- Office of Surface Mining Reclamation OSMRE/VISTA initiative