Webinar Wednesday: A Mapping Tool for Understanding Communities…
A Mapping Tool for Understanding Communities: PennEnviroScreen
Are you looking for a tool with Pennsylvania specific data to help understand and compare communities? The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) released the final Environmental Justice (EJ) Policy on January 3, 2026 and with this release comes an update of the PennEnviroScreen tool. By using PennEnviroScreen, planners can help better understand community demographics and burdens. This can be useful even beyond an explicit EJ context, as PennEnviroScreen is data-rich: it includes great amounts of Pennsylvania specific data.
Join this session to hear about these EJ efforts and tools, with a particular planning perspective. PennEnviroScreen quantifies and visualizes disproportionate environmental effects on vulnerable populations. PennEnviroScreen relies on two categories of 32 indicators. These indicators are broadly separated into Pollution Burden and Population Characteristics.
Planners participating will be able to suggest key case uses to look at live during the session. Some example case uses will involve collecting comparative numbers to put in a community needs statement for a grant application, identifying communities where interpretation or translation services may be needed, andThe session will also look to include input from participants to see how the tool can provide data to meet planners’ needs.
CM Equity credit is pending approval. You must attend the webinar live in order to earn CM credit.
Speaker(s):
Justin Dula
Jordi Comas
John Roper
**The Pennsylvania Chapter is not responsible for the materials or opinions of the speaker(s) you will hear**
Deadline to register is June 2.
Please note: You will receive a reminder email a few days before the webinar with zoom information (please check your spam/junk folders). This email will be sent to the email address you used to register for the event.