Release of the Environmental Justice for All Report Scope of Work

The Mayor's Office and the NYC Environmental Justice Advisory Board are working on the City's first comprehensive study of environmental justice (EJ). The Environmental Justice for All Report will identify the city's Environmental Justice Areas, analyze environmental and climate issues, and identify which communities are being disproportionately impacted by environmental burdens and which are not seeing the benefits of green investments made by the City.

Environmental Justice for All Report Scope of Work

In December 2021, the Mayor's Office of Climate & Sustainability released a scope of work for the Environmental Justice for All Report. The scope outlines the environmental justice concerns the report will study and our approach to analyzing them.

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What is the NYC Environmental Justice for All Report?

In April of 2017, the City enacted historic environmental justice legislation (Local Law 60 and Local Law 64), requiring city government to conduct a comprehensive study to assess the current state of environmental justice in New York City. The Environmental Justice for All Report will analyze environmental and climate issues and identify which communities are being disproportionately impacted by environmental burdens, and which may not be seeing the benefits of green investments made by the City. The report will study issues citywide, but also include a focus on how these issues impact the city's EJ areas.
 

What are the requirements of the NYC Environmental Justice for All Report?

NYC's environmental justice law includes ten requirements for the Environmental Justice Report. These requirements ensure that major climate, environmental, and health concerns are identified and measured, and that existing City programs to address those issues are also examined.

The Mayor's Office of Climate and Sustainability and the City's Environmental Justice Interagency Working Group released a scope for the Environmental Justice For All Report in December 2021 which meets and exceeds these minimum requirements

The NYC Environmental Justice Report is required to include:

• The locations and boundaries of the city's Environmental Justice Areas
• A description of environmental justice issues that may be affecting Environmental Justice Areas, including:
• Locations within the city that are experiencing each issue, where possible
• Recommendations for further data collection, research, or analysis that may be done to better understand which locations within the city are experiencing each issue
• An estimate of current federal, state, and local investment per capita in renewable energy in Environmental Justice Areas as compared to non-Environmental Justice Areas in the city
• A description of barriers to meaningful participation in environmental decision-making affecting residents of Environmental Justice Areas
• Existing City programs and activities that advance environmental justice and allow the public to participate in City agency decision-making
• Existing City programs and activities that allow for public engagement and participation in decision-making regarding the siting of facilities and infrastructure
• Existing City programs, policies, processes, and activities that may cause environmental justice concerns
• Changes that could be made to existing City programs and policies to increase participation by people in Environmental Justice Areas in decision-making that implicates environmental justice concerns
• Latest environmental data, including (but not limited) to air and water quality, the location and characteristics of infrastructure owned and operated by the City, and violations of city environmental regulations, that may reflect environmental problems in Environmental Justice Areas
• Environmental Justice programs proposed or in effect in other cities or states in the United States

Find more information on this link: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/sustainability/our-programs/new-york-citys-environmental-justice-for-all-report.page