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HHS launches community-level environmental justice hazard calculator
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Wednesday formally launched its Environmental Justice Index (EJI), which will assign communities numerical scores based on the health burdens of environmental conditions.  The EJI is based on data from the individual census tract and assigns both an overall environmental score based on 36 factors. The tool also includes data for individual possible hazardous sites within a community, such as coal mines or lead mines, and planned and built environmental features that can alleviate environmental burden, such as walkability or houses built after 1980.   For example, the EJI analysis for Flint, Mich., the site of an ongoing water cris

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