Comment Letter on the Environmental Justice Scorecard
In response to the Request for Information on the Environmental Justice Scorecard from the US Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), EPIC submitted comments in collaboration with the Center for Neighborhood Technology, Hispanic Access Foundation, Center for Progressive Reform, Open Environmental Data Project, One Tree Planted, Anthropocene Alliance, Azavea and the Commons. We recommend CEQ:
Establishing policies and processes to pursue environmental justice goals while developing objective metrics for the scorecard,
Develop national level metrics that incorporate more qualitative and quantitative community data for evaluating environmental justice processes, programs and outcomes, and
Center community engagement and equity in the development and continuous updating of the scorecard and related policies and processes.
