With all these tools, there are a few common terms that you should know and will help you navigate and effectively use these tools. Please refer to this glossary, with EPA definitions of common EJ/Food Desert terms.

The USDA Food atlas is helpful when looking at Food Insecurity - it has indicators such as access to grocery stores, prevalence of grocery stores and fast food, obesity, low-income households and more. By using census data from 2015 and 2019, it is useful for creating food accessibility maps, downloading and comparing data.

The ACS-ED Maps is based off the data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey Education Tabulation. This map tracks data on children (up to 18) and school districts involving economic - poverty, social - household/background, demographic - race, and housing - value/cost - indicators.

The EPA EJSCREEN combines environmental - Ozone/Lead/NATA Cancer risk - and demographic - %Low Income/%People of Color - indicators to create an overall look at Environmental Justice on a state, city, county, even district level. You can generate maps, create reports on certain areas, comparing different cities, states, counties, and more.

Allows you to see different air quality monitors around the country, access those monitors data on air quality, and gather specific pollution data.

AirNow is useful for looking at the air quality in your area on a daily basis, as well as weekly, monthly, or yearly trends. In addition, it gives you data on the current primary pollutants that are affecting the area you look at.

AirNow's interactive map allows you to visually look at the air quality and pollution in a given area.