"Environmental Justice" is another form of Socialism.

Maryland Environmental Justice Screening App

https://p1.cgis.umd.edu/ejscreen/

https://p1.cgis.umd.edu/ejscreen/help.html

The Maryland Environmental Justice Screen application combines demographic and environmental health data from a variety of sources and maps that data onto Maryland census tracts in order to identify disadvantaged communities.

The United States Environmental Protection agency defines "Environmental Justice" as:

❝ the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. … Fair treatment means that no group of people should bear a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, governmental and commercial operations or policies.❝

This application allows users to explore the health of their community and see how it compares to the rest of Maryland on a variety of different measures. Currently, there are 4 categories of data:

Pollution Burden: Exposure

Pollution Burden: Environmental Effects

Population Characteristics: Sensitive Populations

Population Characteristics: Socioeconomic Factors

Each category contains a number of relevant indicators, and an averaged score. The two "Pollution Burden" average scores are then averaged together and the result is multiplied by the average of the "Population Characteristics" categories to get the total EJ Score of each tract. Because there are many different types of data with different units, directly comparing the raw values would be difficult. Instead, the percentile for each indicator is given. This shows the percentage of census tracts in Maryland that have a value less than equal to the tract selected. The values are given as a decimal from 0 to 1. A census tract with an "Asthma Emergency Discharges" value of .9 is therefore in the 90th percentile, which means only 10% of tracts in Maryland have higher values. EJ Scores near 1 represent areas of the greatest environmental justice concern.