Rural Environmental Justice Resource Collection

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
      • Grants
      • Technical Assistance
      • Targeted Brownfield Assessments
  • 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
    • EJ and Sustainability Reference Desk Book (Team EJ) (9.26 MB PDF)
    • Equity & Environmental Justice
    • Federal Mapping Resources Catalog
    • Supporting Sustainable Rural Communities report  

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
  • OSMRE/VISTA initiative

U.S. Department of Labor

• YouthBuild

• 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 Agriculture Agency Programs
  • Rural Development (RD) Program and Services
  • Farm Services Agency (FSA) Programs and Services
  • Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Funding Opportunities
  • U.S. Forest Service Cooperative Forestry
  • Office of Tribal Relations Programs and Services
  • Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Environmental Justice
  • Office of Rural Health Policy
• U.S. Department of the Interior
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Tribal Wildlife Grants
• U.S. Department of Labor
  • Employment & Training Administration

• 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
  • Enviro-Health Links
  • Public Health Partners – Environmental Health

• 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
  • Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), Rural Outreach
  • Rural Development Success Stories
  • U. S. Forest Service  Partnership Success Stories

• U.S. Department of the Interior
  • Office of Surface Mining Reclamation OSMRE/VISTA initiative
    • Rural Appalachian Improvement League