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          STILL A LOT OF DOUBTER 
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AND A LOT OF INFORMATION 
          [Earth Day HTX: Environmental Justice Screen]
IN REGARD TO EARTH DAY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ISSUES AND THE LIKE, COCO, OVER THE SEVERAL YEARS. 
          THIS IS OUR ANNUAL EJ SCREEN. 
          WE DO THIS ONCE A YEAR, EVERY YEAR. 
          AND I THINK WE'VE BEEN DOING IT FOR ABOUT, WHAT, THE LAST 10 YEARS OR SO. 
          IT, IT'S BEEN QUITE A RUN. 
          AND THIS YEAR IN CONJUNCTION WITH, OF COURSE, THE MAYOR'S, UH, SPEAKER SERIES AND THE, UH, CITY OF HOUSTON DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, UH, SAW DR. LAUREN HOPKINS EARLIER. 
          I IMAGINE SHE'S STILL HERE, BUT WE'RE DOING IT IN CONJUNCTION WITH THEM. 
          AND WE'RE GRATEFUL TO HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO DO AND TO SHARE WITH YOU, SOME OF YOU ARE AWARE OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. 
          SOME OF YOU ARE AWARE OF THE DATA AND UNDERSTAND IT. 
          AND THE INFORMATION, THE PURPOSE FOR THE EJ SCREEN IS TO NOT JUST SHARE THE DATA, BUT MAKE IT RELATABLE. 
          SHOW THE IMPACT THAT IT HAS ON COMMUNITIES OF COLOR AND THE LIKE. 
          SO TODAY YOU'LL SEE A LOT AND HEAR A LOT. 
          WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO ASK YOU QUESTIONS AND ALL OF THE ABOVE IN REGARD TO IT. 
          SO THAT'S THE REASON WHY WE ARE HERE, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, THOSE ON THE PANEL, AND SOME OF YOU THAT ARE IN THE AUDIENCE HERE UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. 
          BUT FOR THE COMMUNITY'S PERSPECTIVE, THEY JUST KNOW THAT THEY'RE BEING IMPACTED BY SOMETHING AND IT'S HAVING EFFECT ON THEM. 
          AND ECONOMICALLY, SOCIALLY, HEALTH WISE, INFRASTRUCTURE, HOUSING, ALL THE ABOVE. 
          AND THE PURPOSE FOR THIS PANEL AND PURPOSE OF DJ SCREEN IS TO SHARE WITH YOU THAT IMPACT. 
          AND WE'RE NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT AIR QUALITY, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TOXIC SITES, SUPER FUN SITES, YOU NAME IT. 
          BUT I'M GONNA LEAD THAT UP TO THE PANEL HERE. 
          THEY'RE GOING TO DISCUSS THAT. 
          AND I WANT TO INTRODUCE YOU TO, UH, DR. 
          DEA KING, WHO IS THE, UH, ASSISTANT ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR RIGHT AT THE, UH, BULLET CENTER. 
          SHE WILL INTRODUCE THE, UH, REST OF THE PANEL HERE, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE PRESENT. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 
          AND ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR COMING. 
          AND DON'T BE AFRAID TO ASK YOUR QUESTIONS. 
          AND I WAS TOLD YEARS AGO THAT THERE'S NO DUMB QUESTION EXCEPT FOR THE ONE THAT YOU DON'T ASK . 
          SO, SO TAKE THE TIME AND HOPEFULLY THIS INFORMATION WILL BE AVAILABLE TO YOU OR YOU'LL HAVE ACCESS TO THE INFORMATION AND TO ASK ALL YOUR QUESTIONS. 
          DR. KING. 
          THANK YOU, REVEREND. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US THIS AFTERNOON. 
          AS REVEREND CALWELL SAID, I'M DR. 
          DENE KING AND I'M THE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THE BULLISH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE JUSTICE AT THE TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY. 
          WOO . 
          SO TODAY WE WANT YOU TO, UM, PREPARE YOUR MINDS TO LEARN ABOUT VARIOUS TOOLS THAT WILL GIVE YOU INFORMATION ABOUT, UM, DATA AND FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE JUSTICE, AND ALSO PROVIDE YOU SOME OPPORTUNITIES TO CREATE MAPS. 
          WE HOPE THAT THESE ARE USER FRIENDLY, UM, DATA PLATFORMS. AND WE WILL HAVE, I'M GOING TO KIND OF GIVE YOU AN WHAT WILL HAPPEN. 
          SO THE FIRST PRESENTATION WILL BE DONE BY DR. 
          MATTHEW TEJADA. 
          HE IS GOING TO SHARE WITH US THE E-P-A-E-E-J SCREEN TOOL. 
          THEN WE'LL HAVE DR. GRACE LEWIS. 
          SHE WILL SHARE WITH US A TOOL DEVELOPED BY ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND, UH, CALLED THE CUMULATIVE VULNERABILITY INDEX, CLIMATE VULNERABILITY, CLIMATE VULNERABILITY. 
          OH MAN, CLOSE, CLOSE . 
          AND THEN JEN FROM OUR ALLIANCE WILL SHARE WITH US A TOOL THAT THEY HAVE DEVELOPED CALLED THE AIR MAIL. 
          AIR MAIL. 
          SO THESE ARE TOOLS THAT WE HOPE THAT WHEN YOU LEAVE TODAY, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO USE AND YOU'LL BE ABLE TO TAKE THIS INFORMATION AND HELP ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COMMUNITIES TO ADDRESS THEIR CONCERNS. 
          SO WE WILL HAVE THE FIRST PRESENTATION AND WE'LL TAKE A FEW QUESTIONS. 
          WE'LL HAVE THE NEXT PRESENTATION, JUST TAKE A FEW QUESTIONS. 
          AND THEN WE ARE HOPING THAT MOST OF YOU'LL SAVE YOUR QUESTIONS UNTIL AFTER ALL OF THE PRESENTATIONS. 
          UM, AND WE'RE READY TO GET STARTED. 
          SO, DR. 
          TEJADA, GREAT. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          THERE WE GO. 
          UM, HEY EVERYONE. 
          UH, SO THANKS FOR THIS. 
          UH, AND, UM, AS DENE WAS SAYING, AND I'M GONNA STAND UP 'CAUSE THOSE ARE A LITTLE UNCOMFORTABLE. 
          THESE ARE REALLY HARD , UM, , THEY DON'T WORK IF YOU'RE SHORT. 
          THEY DON'T WORK IF YOU'RE TALL, SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN. 
          UM, UH, SO A COUPLE THINGS. 
          ONE, I'M GONNA GIVE A PRESENTATION AND, UH, I WAS HOPING TO DO A LIVE DEMO, SO I DIDN'T HAVE THE PRESENTATION UPDATED. 
          SO THIS ISN'T A PRESENTATION THAT'S ABOUT NINE MONTHS OLD, AND A LOT CHANGES VERY QUICKLY IN THIS WORLD RIGHT NOW. 
          UM, AS DENE WAS SAYING, YOU'RE 
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GONNA HEAR ABOUT SEVERAL OTHER TOOLS. 
          UM, UH, DR. 
          BULLARD HAS ANOTHER TOOL, THE HC JUST TOOL THAT WAS RECENTLY PUT OUT. 
          LIKE THIS IS A RAPIDLY EXPANDING WORLD. 
          UM, AND A LOT OF FOLKS COME TO, I THINK ALL OF US PROBABLY, I KNOW I GET A LOT OF FOLKS COMING TO ME FROM ACROSS THE UNITED STATES ASKING, WHICH TOOL DO I USE? WHICH TOOL DO I USE? UM, AND I ALWAYS SAY ALL OF 'EM. 
          HA. 
          UH, BUT THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION REALLY IS ALL OF 'EM TO ME, BECAUSE ALL OF THESE TOOLS DO THE SAME THING DIFFERENTLY, RIGHT? THEY'RE ALL TAKING DATA ABOUT THE CONDITIONS OF COMMUNITIES, WHETHER THAT'S THEIR VULNERABILITY AS RELATED TO THEIR DEMOGRAPHICS, WHETHER THEY'RE COMMUNITIES OF COLOR OR LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES, INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES, EMPLOYMENT RATES, EDUCATIONAL RATES, LANGUAGE RATES. 
          UM, THEY'RE TAKING A LOT OF THAT SORT OF DATA. 
          AND THEN THEY'RE TAKING OTHER DATA, WHETHER THAT'S ENVIRONMENTAL DATA, HOUSING DATA, TRANSPORTATION DATA, UH, ECONOMIC, UH, DEVELOPMENT DATA, JUST ALL DIFFERENT CLIMATE DATA, RIGHT? AND THEY'RE COMBINING THEM IN WAYS THAT ALLOW THE USER TO THEN HAVE BETTER INSIGHT INTO WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING ON THE GROUND IN THOSE COMMUNITIES. 
          AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT 10 YEARS AGO DIDN'T EXIST. 
          LIKE I REMEMBER SITTING HERE WITH SOME FOLKS THAT I WOULD WORK WITH IN HOUSTON, AND WE USED TO WRITE GRANTS 12, 13, 14 YEARS AGO TO HIRE GRAD STUDENTS TO DO THE SORT OF RESEARCH THAT DR. 
          BULLARD WAS TALKING ABOUT OVER LUNCH, RIGHT? LIKE SITTING DOWN WITH REAMS OF DATA AND COMPILING IT AND COMPUTING IT. 
          THESE TOOLS DO THAT INSTANTANEOUSLY NOW. 
          MM-HMM . 
          AND SO USING ANY ONE OF THESE TOOLS WILL HELP YOU UNDERSTAND HOW TO USE ALL OF THEM. 
          AND THEY'LL ALSO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND HOW THE TOOLS ARE DIFFERENT, RIGHT? ONE OF THE TOOLS THAT'S OUT THERE RIGHT NOW, UM, IS THE CLIMATE ECONOMIC JUSTICE SCREENING TOOL. 
          IT WAS DEVELOPED BY THE WHITE HOUSE FOR JUSTICE 40. 
          IT'S A LOT OF CRITICISMS. THEY'RE NOT GONNA GO INTO ALL THE THINGS AROUND, UH, THE, THE C JS TOOL. 
          WE'RE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE C JS TOOL AT EPA . 
          HE KNOWS I'M SETTING MYSELF UP  FOR DEFENSE THERE. 
          , WE'RE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE C JS TOOL. 
          UM, BUT THE C JS TOOL TO ME IS DOING SOMETHING, IS DOING ONE THING. 
          IT'S, IT'S PROVIDING AN ANSWER TO A POLICY QUESTION, RIGHT? IT'S, IT'S TELLING YOU FOR PURPOSES OF JUSTICE SORT, WHERE ARE THE DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES? THAT'S WHAT IT'S DOING. 
          A LOT OF THE OTHER TOOLS, LIKE HHS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES NOW HAS A TOOL OUT THERE WHERE THEY'RE ACTUALLY CREATING A CUMULATIVE SCORE, LOOKING AT DIFFERENT DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION AND HEALTH INFORMATION AND CLIMATE INFORMATION, AND ACTUALLY PULLING THAT ALL TOGETHER IN THEIR TOOL TO HELP GIVE YOU A, A SENSE OF HEALTH VULNERABILITY ACROSS THE UNITED STATES. 
          EJ SCREEN, I LIKE TO THINK IS A REAL GOOD GATEWAY TOOL TO TRY TO USE THAT IN A POSITIVE WAY. 
          EJ SCREEN WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TOOLS OUT THERE. 
          UH, IT WAS, IT WAS THE FIRST NATIONALLY CONSISTENT SCREENING TOOL OUT THERE. 
          AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE REASONS IT WAS MADE BY EPA OVER A DECADE AGO, BECAUSE WE HAD ABOUT 20 DIFFERENT TOOLS ACROSS JUST EPA, LIKE INDIVIDUAL PROGRAMS, INDIVIDUAL REGIONS HAD COME UP WITH THEIR OWN WAY OF PULLING DIFFERENT SOURCES OF DATA AND COMBINING IT IN DIFFERENT WAYS. 
          SO IF YOU WENT TO THE DENVER OFFICE, THEY'D GIVE YOU A DIFFERENT ANSWER FROM THE BOSTON OFFICE, AND THAT'S REALLY NOT GOOD FOR ANYBODY, RIGHT? SO WE WANTED A, UH, UH, A CONSISTENT PLATFORM TO DO THAT SORT OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SCREENING. 
          AND WE WANTED TO MAKE IT PUBLIC. 
          AND IT WAS A FIGHT TO MAKE IT PUBLIC. 
          IT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS I WAS ASSIGNED TO DO, OR I ACTUALLY CHOSE TO DO WHEN I JOINED EPA IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION. 
          IT WAS A FIGHT TO GET THAT TOOL PUBLIC, 'CAUSE IT WAS STILL SEEN AS DANGEROUS. 
          THAT WAS, THAT WAS LESS THAN 10 YEARS AGO, RIGHT? THEY, THEY LOOKED AT EJS SCREEN AND THEY WERE LIKE, OOF, THAT'S GONNA UPSET SOME PEOPLE. 
          THE MAP IS RED. 
          WHAT IS INDUSTRY GONNA THINK? ARE THE STATES GONNA GET P****D OFF? AND SO WE FOUGHT REALLY HARD TO GET THAT TOOL OUT BECAUSE WE KNEW THAT THESE TOOLS WERE THE FUTURE. 
          SO I INVITE FOLKS, UM, TO PLEASE LEARN HOW TO USE THESE TOOLS, LEARN HOW TO USE ALL OF THE TOOLS THAT ARE OUT THERE. 
          AND ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU START GETTING TO THOSE LOCALLY, THOSE LOCALLY DERIVED TOOLS, YOU KNOW, TOOLS THAT ARE DEVELOPED BY A STATE, TOOLS THAT ARE DEVELOPED BY COMMUNITIES FOR THEIR COMMUNITIES, TOOLS THAT ARE DEVELOPED FOR A SPECIFIC LIKE CITY OR COUNTY AREA. 
          BECAUSE ONCE YOU START GETTING INTO THESE TOOLS, YOU'LL REALIZE THAT WHEN YOU'RE OPERATING AT A NATIONAL SCALE, THERE'S REALLY NOT A LOT OF DATA IN THE UNITED STATES THAT'S REALLY CONSISTENT AND RELIABLE AT A NATIONAL SCALE AS COMPARED TO WHAT YOU HAVE LOCALLY. 
          WHEN YOU LOOK AT A LOCAL PLACE, YOU HAVE SUCH RICH DATA, ESPECIALLY THAT COMMUNITY DERIVED DATA, THE STUFF THAT THE COMMUNITY IS TELLING YOU, THE GROUND TRUTH DATA THAT'S COMING DIRECTLY FROM THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. 
          SO JUST UNDERSTANDING THAT I THINK CAN REALLY HELP UNLOCK A LOT OF WHAT, UH, YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THESE DIFFERENT TOOLS IS. 
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SO I'M GONNA TRY TO DO THIS PRETTY QUICKLY AND JUST GET TO THE ACTUAL TOOL. 
          'CAUSE WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT EJ ALL DAY. 
          UH, AGAIN, WE'VE BEEN, WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS, UH, EVER SINCE WE WENT TO THE KNEE JACK, OUR NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVISORY COUNCIL, I THINK IT WAS IN 2009. 
          AND THEY FINISHED THEIR REPORT IN 2010 TO HELP INFORM OUR DEVELOPMENT OF EJ SCREEN A LONG TIME AGO. 
          SO, EJ SCREEN DOES SOMETHING PRETTY SIMPLE. 
          IT TAKES TWO DIFFERENT UNIVERSES OF DATA AND CREATES A THIRD NEW UNIVERSE OF DATA. 
          IT TAKES A LOT OF DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION. 
          IT TAKES, UH, COMMUNITIES OF COLOR, IT TAKES LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES, INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES. 
          IT LOOKS AT OTHER THINGS LIKE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, LIKE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT. 
          IT, IT, WE HAVE RECENTLY INTRODUCED THINGS LIKE LIFE EXPECTANCY, EMPLOYMENT RATES. 
          IT TAKES ALL THAT DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION BECAUSE THAT'S ONE HALF OF THE EJ EQUATION, RIGHT? IT IT, IT'S LOOKING AT THE VULNERABILITY OF COMMUNITIES. 
          SO WE USE THAT DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION TO TRY TO SHOW, WELL, WHAT IS THE POTENTIAL VULNERABILITY OF THAT COMMUNITY? THAT'S ONE UNIVERSE OF DATA. 
          THE OTHER UNIVERSE OF DATA IS ENVIRONMENTAL DATA, RIGHT? SO WE LOOK AT EVERY ENVIRONMENTAL DATA SET WE CAN THAT OPERATES AT A NATIONAL SCALE TO BE ABLE TO SHOW WHAT IS POTENTIALLY HAPPENING ON THE GROUND IN ENVIRONMENTAL TERMS. AND ONE OF THE REAL LIMITATIONS OF EJ SCREEN IS ONE OF ITS STRENGTHS. 
          WE OPERATE AT THE BLOCK GROUP LEVEL. 
          WE OPERATE AT THE FINEST SPATIAL RESOLUTION THAT WE CAN, THAT THE DATA WILL LET US OPERATE AT. 
          'CAUSE EJ HAPPENS LOCALLY, RIGHT? SO WE PUSH THE DATA TO GET AS LOCAL AS WE CAN DOWN TO THAT BLOCK GROUP LEVEL. 
          AND I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN A MINUTE TOO. 
          BUT THEN THE NEW THING THAT EJ SCREEN DOES IS IT ACTUALLY COMBINES THE ENVIRONMENTAL DATA WITH THE DEMOGRAPHIC DATA TO GIVE YOU EJ DATA. 
          'CAUSE THOSE ARE THE TWO HALVES, RIGHT? LOOKING AT THE VULNERABILITY AS RELATED BY THE DEMOGRAPHIC DATA AND THE BURDEN AS REPRESENTED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL DATA AND PUTTING THOSE, THE TWO THINGS TOGETHER IS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. 
          IT'S VULNERABILITY AND BURDEN OF COMMUNITIES COMBINED COMPOUNDING WITH ONE ANOTHER AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL. 
          THAT'S WHAT EJ SCREEN IS SHOWING YOU ARE THE COMBINATION OF THOSE TWO THINGS. 
          UM, I'M NOT GONNA GO OVER THAT. 
          WHO CARES? UM, WE ACTUALLY NOW HAVE, AND I DIDN'T GET TO UPDATE THIS RIGHT BEFORE THIS. 
          WE ACTUALLY HAVE, I, NO, WE HAVE 12 EJ INDEXES NOW. 
          UM, SO WE HAVE A LOT OF THINGS ON THERE AS REGARDS TO AIR QUALITY ISSUES. 
          WE HAVE THINGS ABOUT LIKE LEAD PAINT, UM, UH, HOW CLOSE COMMUNITIES ARE TO SUPERFUND SITES OR RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN FACILITIES. 
          THOSE ARE FACILITIES THAT HAVE TO FILE A RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BECAUSE THEY USE PRODUCE STORE HAZARDOUS MATERIALS THAT IF RELEASED INTO THE ENVIRONMENT WOULD HURT OR KILL PEOPLE IN THE LOCAL POPULATION. 
          UM, THINGS LIKE WASTEWATER DISCHARGE, UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK. 
          THERE ARE 12 OF THESE BECAUSE THERE ARE ONLY 12 DATA SETS THAT ARE NATIONALLY CONSISTENT THAT OPERATE AT THIS FINE SPATIAL RESOLUTION. 
          YOU'LL NOTICE WE DON'T HAVE, UH, AN INDEX ON HERE THAT DEALS WITH DRINKING WATER BECAUSE THE UNITED STATES DOES NOT HAVE A NATIONALLY AND CONSISTENT DRINKING WATER DATA SET. 
          IT DOESN'T EXIST. 
          WE DON'T KNOW THE DATA'S OUT THERE, BUT IT'S NOT NATIONALLY CONSISTENT. 
          WE DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE A COMPUTER AT EPA THAT PULLS ALL THAT INFORMATION TOGETHER AND ALLOWS US TO SEE ACROSS THE UNITED STATES WHO IN WHICH WATER SERVICE AREAS IS DRINKING WATER THAT DOES OR DOES NOT COMPLY WITH THE SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT. 
          WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ON HERE ABOUT, UH, AGRICULTURAL USES LIKE PESTICIDES, FERTILIZERS. 
          WE DON'T HAVE A NATIONALLY CONSISTENT DATA SET FOR THAT IN THE UNITED STATES. 
          SO WE DON'T HAVE THAT ENVIRONMENT, THAT INFORMATION ON HERE. 
          WE ALSO ARE USING A LOT OF PROXIES LIKE THAT LEAD PAINT INDICATOR. 
          WE DON'T KNOW WHICH HOUSES IN THE UNITED STATES HAVE LEAD PAINT. 
          WE DON'T HAVE A HOUSE BY HOUSE SURVEY IN THE UNITED STATES OF WHO DOES OR DOES NOT HAVE LEAD PAINT IN THEIR HOUSE. 
          BUT WE KNOW HOW OLD THE HOUSING STOCK IS. 
          SO THAT'S ACTUALLY A PROXY FOR THAT. 
          THAT'S JUST LOOKING AT AGE OF HOUSING STOCK AND HOUSING STOCK. 
          THAT'S 1970 YEARS OR EARLIER. 
          THERE'S A PRETTY GOOD CHANCE THERE'S LEAD PAINT IN THERE. 
          SO THAT'S WHAT THAT IS ACTUALLY DOING. 
          THAT'S WHY YOU'VE ALSO HEARD ME SAY THE WORD POTENTIAL A FEW TIMES. 
          WE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT THE POTENTIAL THAT EJ SCREEN IS SHOWING YOU FOR TWO REASONS. 
          ONE, THERE'S ALWAYS UNCERTAINTY IN THE DATA. 
          AND WE ALSO DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO THINK THAT EJ SCREEN IS TELLING YOU THE TRUTH OF WHAT'S HAPPENING ON THE GROUND, RIGHT? THE TRUTH THAT'S HAPPENING ON THE GROUND IS ONLY TOLD BY THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE. 
          BUT EJ SCREEN TAKES AWAY MONTHS WORTH OF WORK JUST FOR YOU TO SEE THE DATA RELATED TO A PLACE WHERE YOU HAVE SOMETHING GOING ON. 
          AND THAT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST DISTINCTIONS FOR ME BETWEEN EJ SCREEN AND A TOOL LIKE C GST. 
          C GT IS AN ANSWER TOOL. 
          IT'S ANSWERING A POLICY QUESTION. 
          EJ SCREEN IS A QUESTION TOOL. 
          IT'S LETTING YOU ASK REALLY 
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GOOD QUESTIONS. 
          'CAUSE IT'S GIVING YOU JUST ABOUT ALL THE DATA THAT WE CAN AT A NATIONAL LEVEL ABOUT A A ABOUT A VERY SMALL LOCALIZED PLACE. 
          SO IT'S ALLOWING YOU TO UNDERSTAND AND ASK MUCH BETTER QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT IS POTENTIALLY HAPPENING IN THAT PLACE. 
          UM, WE'VE BEEN UPDATING THE TOOL A LOT. 
          WE ACTUALLY WENT THROUGH TWO MAJOR UPDATES LAST YEAR. 
          WE DID AN OVERHAUL OF THE INTERFACE AND THEN WE ADDED A WHOLE BUNCH OF NEW DATA, UM, THIS PAST FALL. 
          AND WE'RE GETTING READY FOR ANOTHER PRETTY SIGNIFICANT UPDATE HERE IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS. 
          WE'LL BE ADDING AND REFRESHING A LOT OF THE DATA. 
          WE UPDATE EJ SCREEN AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR. 
          AND ANY OF THE DATA THAT'S BEEN UPDATED IN THAT PREVIOUS YEAR, WE UPDATE ALL THE DATA SO THAT IT'S AS FRESH AS WE CAN GET IT. 
          AND WE ALWAYS MAKE ANY ENHANCEMENTS OR FIXES, UH, EVERY TIME WE UPDATE THE TOOL AS WELL. 
          UM, IT'S A FAIRLY MAJOR UNDERTAKING, UH, RUNNING ONE OF THESE TOOLS. 
          I DIDN'T REALIZE EVERYTHING THAT WENT INTO RUNNING A TOOL LIKE THIS. 
          I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST LIKE A COMPUTER SOMEWHERE THAT SOMEBODY LOGGED IN EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE. 
          UM, IT ACTUALLY TAKES A, A TEAM OF PEOPLE CONSTANTLY MAINTAINING AND UPDATING AND WORKING ON THESE TOOLS TO KEEP THEM GOING. 
          THAT'S A BLANK SLIDE FOR SOME REASON. 
          , UM, REST PERIOD. 
           REPEAT. 
          I ALREADY TALKED ALREADY ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT. 
          UH, I'M NOT GONNA TAKE UP TOO MUCH TIME GOING THROUGH IT. 
          WE CAN, WE CAN LOOK MORE ABOUT IT. 
          HERE'S, HERE'S, UM, JUST SO PEOPLE CAN VISUALIZE WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IN TERMS OF OF SCALE, RIGHT? SO A LOT OF THE INFORMATION IN EJ SCREEN IS CENSUS DATA. 
          AND THE CENSUS OPERATES AT THE BLOCK LEVEL. 
          LIKE LITERALLY YOUR BLOCK, THE BLOCK YOU LIVE ON THE CENSUS CAN LOOK AT DATA YOUR INDIVIDUAL BLOCK. 
          THE CENSUS DOES NOT MAKE THAT INFORMATION PUBLIC BECAUSE THERE'S SO FEW PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN A BLOCK. 
          YOU CAN GET UP IN YOUR NEIGHBOR'S BUSINESS JUST BY LOOKING AT THAT DATA, RIGHT? SO THEY DON'T LET THAT PUBLIC. 
          THE THE FINEST SCALE THAT THEY ALLOW YOU TO LOOK AT IS THE BLOCK GROUP, WHICH IS TYPICALLY ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THREE, FOUR, MAYBE FIVE BLOCKS SMOOSHED TOGETHER, RIGHT? YOU'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT TWO OR 3000 PEOPLE IN A BLOCK GROUP. 
          SO CENSUS FEELS LIKE THERE'S ENOUGH ANONYMITY AT THAT SCALE THAT THEY CAN MAKE THAT PUBLIC. 
          THEN YOU TAKE A FEW, UH, BLOCK GROUPS AND YOU SMOOSH THEM TOGETHER AND YOU GET A CENSUS TRACTED. 
          IT'S USUALLY ABOUT FOUR, MAYBE FIVE BLOCK GROUPS MAKE A CENSUS TRACT. 
          AND THEN OF COURSE YOU GET COUNTIES AND STATES AND EVERYTHING ELSE. 
          UH, SO WE OPERATE AT THAT BLOCK GROUP LEVEL. 
          UM, UH, HERE'S JUST SOME OF THE SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATORS WE HAVE IN THERE. 
          WE HAVE, UH, VULNERABLE AGE GROUPS, CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY. 
          UH, WE HAVE LINGUISTIC ISOLATION, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT AND EMPLOYMENT. 
          UM, UH, PEOPLE OF COLOR AND ALSO LOW INCOME IN THERE. 
          AND THEN WE ALSO COMBINE PEOPLE OF COLOR IN LOW INCOME AS KIND OF THE FUNDAMENTAL DEMOGRAPHICS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. 
          AND THAT'S ACTUALLY A DEMOGRAPHIC INDEX. 
          THAT'S WHAT WE ACTUALLY COMBINE WITH EACH ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR TO COME UP WITH THE 12 EJ INDEXES. 
          OKAY? SO IT'S ONE ENVIRONMENTAL DATA SET COMBINED WITH THE AVERAGE OF LOW INCOME AND PEOPLE OF COLOR TO CREATE THAT. 
          I'M GLAD I DID THESE FINGERS RIGHT, UH, TO ACTUALLY CREATE THAT EJ INDEX . 
          ALRIGHT, UM, HERE'S SOME OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS. 
          SO PARTICULATE MATTER AND OZONE IS PRETTY GOOD. 
          WE ACTUALLY, AND WE ACTUALLY USE, WE USE A FUSION SET FOR A PARTICULATE MATTER IN OZONE. 
          AND THAT MEANS THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF A LAG. 
          IT ACTUALLY TAKES US A COUPLE YEARS FOR THEM TO CRANK THROUGH ALL THE DATA BECAUSE PARTICULATE MATTER AND OZONE, THEY ACTUALLY TAKE ALL OF THE MONITOR DATA IN THE UNITED STATES AND ALL OF THE MODELED DATA IN THE UNITED STATES AND THEY FUSE THOSE DATA SETS. 
          AND THAT'S WHAT WE USE IN EJ SCREEN. 
          IT'S A FUSION OF THOSE TWO THINGS. 
          'CAUSE IT GIVES YOU THAT GREATER RICHNESS OF DATA AT A FINER SCALE. 
          WE ALSO HAVE SEVERAL THINGS FROM OUR AIR TOXICS ASSESSMENTS LIKE DIESEL, PARTICULAR MATTER OF TOXIC RISK, UH, TRA JUST PLAIN TRAFFIC PROXIMITY. 
          UH, THEN I TALKED ABOUT LEAD PAINT SUPERFUND PROXIMITY, THE RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN, UH, HAZARDOUS WASTE PROXIMITY WHERE WE ACTUALLY COMBINE SEVERAL DIFFERENT DATA SETS TOGETHER TO LOOK AT, UM, ALL OF THE SORTS OF DIFFERENT INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES THAT DEAL WITH WASTE TRANSFER STATIONS, STORAGE STATIONS, DISPOSAL SITES. 
          UM, SO IT GIVES YOU A REALLY INCLUSIVE LOOK AT WASTE AND PROXIMITY OF WASTE TO, UH, COMMUNITIES WITH EJ CONCERNS. 
          UH, ONE OF OUR NEWER ONES IS LOOKING AT UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS AND LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS, PARTICULARLY IN RURAL AREAS, ALTHOUGH THEY'RE PRETTY, UM, UH, I MEAN UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS, WHEREVER THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES, THERE'S AN OR UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK. 
          AND IF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN THERE FOR OVER A DECADE, THERE'S PROBABLY A LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK. 
          THEY'RE KIND OF ALL OVER THE PLACE, BUT THEY DO, ESPECIALLY IN TERMS OF THE RATE OF LEAKING AND THE RATE OF CORRECTING THAT THERE IS AN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SETTLEMENT TO THAT, RIGHT? LOWER INCOME COMMUNITIES AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR ARE GONNA BE MORE LIKELY TO HAVE LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS IN AND AROUND THEIR COMMUNITIES THAN OTHER PARTS OF THE, OF THE COUNTRY. 
          AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE THE WASTEWATER DISCHARGE INDICATOR, WHICH WE'RE ACTUALLY PRETTY, PRETTY PROUD OF. 
          THAT'S THE ONE THAT WE ACTUALLY DO THE MOST HANDS-ON WORK ON IN THE EJ SCREEN TEAM. 
          'CAUSE WE ACTUALLY TAKE REI, WHICH IS ONE, UH, UH, A 
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TOXICS DATA SET AT EPA. 
          WE TAKE THE DATA, BUT WE RUN IT THROUGH THE MODEL OF THE TOXICS RELEASE INVENTORY. 
          SO WE CAN ACTUALLY GET THE FATE, WHAT IS IT, THE FATE AND DISPOSITION OR WHATEVER THE WATER PEOPLE CALL IT. 
          YOU ACTUALLY TAKE THE POINT SOURCE OF THE DATA GOING INTO THE WATER. 
          AND THEN WE MODEL HOW FAR, BASED UPON HOW, HOW MUCH OF THAT WASTE THERE IS AND HOW TOXIC THAT WASTE IS, HOW FAR DOWN THE STREAM OR LAKE IT'LL ACTUALLY POLLUTE IT. 
          SO WE ACTUALLY DO A LOT OF, OF, UH, WORK ON THE ACTUAL ENVIRONMENTAL DATA BEFORE WE COMBINE IT WITH THE DEMOGRAPHIC DATA, LOOKING AT PEOPLE WHO LIVE CLOSE TO THOSE POLLUTED BODIES OF WATER. 
          UH, UH, ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE DO IN EJ GREEN, WE DON'T COMBINE ALL THE DATA. 
          IT'S NOT A CUMULATIVE SCORE. 
          AND THAT'S SOMETHING A LOT OF PEOPLE TALK ABOUT. 
          IS IT A CUMULATIVE SCORE? IT'S NOT A CUMULATIVE SCORE. 
          WE'RE ACTUALLY, WE'RE ACTUALLY WORKING WITH THE EPA SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD RIGHT NOW, AND ONE OF THE QUESTIONS WE'RE ASKING THEM IS, IS HOW CAN WE POTENTIALLY LOOK AT DIFFERENT WAYS OF CUMULATIVE SCORING? BECAUSE WE'RE COMBINING A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS, RIGHT? WE'RE COMBINING HOW CLOSE SOMEBODY LIVES TO A SUPERFUND SITE, AS WELL AS HOW MUCH PM 2.5 THEY HAVE IN THE AIR. 
          AND WE'RE GONNA COMPARE THAT TO A COMMUNITY A HUNDRED MILES AWAY THAT HAS NO SUPERFUND SITES, BUT MAYBE HAS A LOT OF LEAD AND IS SURROUNDED BY RMP FACILITIES, RIGHT? AND WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO COMBINE THOSE THINGS IN A WAY THAT TREATS THEM THE RIGHT WAY IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE COUNTRY, DEPENDING UPON WHAT THEY'RE POTENTIALLY EXPOSED TO. 
          SO WE'RE LOOKING FOR SOME IMPACT OR SOME INPUT ON HOW TO COMBINE THINGS IN A, IN A SCIENTIFICALLY DEFENSIBLE WAY. 
          SO IT DOESN'T GIVE YOU A CUMULATIVE INDEX, BUT IT DOES GIVE YOU A CUMULATIVE VIEW BECAUSE YOU CAN LOOK ACROSS ALL OF THE DATA ALL AT THE SAME TIME, AND YOU CAN SEE, YOU KNOW, A COMMUNITY THAT'S MAYBE REALLY HIGH FOR JUST ONE THING VERSUS A COMMUNITY THAT'S HIGH FOR ALL 12. 
          AND YOU CAN HAVE THAT CUMULATIVE VIEW OF THE DIFFERENT POTENTIAL RISKS FACING THAT COMMUNITY ALONG WITH THEIR VULNERABILITY ALL AT THE SAME TIME. 
          AND BECAUSE WE'RE LOOKING AT DIFFERENT DATA SETS, WE'RE WE'RE, UM, RANKING EVERYTHING AS A PERCENTILE SCORE, RIGHT? 'CAUSE OTHERWISE IT'D BE ALL THESE DIFFERENT, LIKE MICROGRAMS AND MILLIGRAMS AND PPS AND PPMS AND DAH, DAH, DAH. 
          SO WE PUT EVERYTHING IN A, IN A SCORE. 
          SO IT'S JUST LIKE WHEN YOUR KID COMES IN FROM SCHOOL AND THEY SCORED 93% ON THE STAR TEST OR WHATEVER, WHICH MEANS THEY'RE AT THE 90, THEY DID AS WELL, OR BETTER THAN 93% OF THE KIDS THAT TOOK THAT TEST, RIGHT? SO IT'S NOT A, IT'S NOT A RAW SCORE, IT'S A PERCENTILE SCORE. 
          THAT'S WHAT EJ SCREEN HAS GIVEN YOU. 
          IT'S LOOKING AT ALL THAT DATA AND THEN IT'S RANKING EVERY SINGLE BLOCK GROUP IN THE UNITED STATES AGAINST ALL THE OTHER BLOCK GROUPS. 
          AND IT'S TELLING YOU WHERE DID THEY HIT ON THAT PERCENTILE RANKING? OR YOU CAN FLIP IT OVER. 
          THERE'S ACTUALLY A BUTTON YOU CAN HIT AND YOU CAN LOOK AT IT AS JUST COMPARED TO THE STATE. 
          YOU KNOW? AND THAT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT. 
          'CAUSE WHEN WE FIRST LAUNCHED EJ SCREEN, WE WERE COMPARING KENTUCKY TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 
          NOT A LOT LIT UP IN KENTUCKY. 
          WE KNOW THERE'S COMMUNITIES IN KENTUCKY THAT ARE OVERBURDENED AND VULNERABLE, BUT WHEN YOU AVERAGE THEM IN WITH SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, THEY WASH OUT, RIGHT? SO WE NEEDED TO LOOK AT KENTUCKY JUST VERSUS KENTUCKY. 
          AND THE SAME THING FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 
          IT WAS A SMEAR OF RED. 
          LIKE IT WAS NOT HELPFUL FOR ANYBODY. 
          BUT WHEN YOU JUST LOOK AT CALIFORNIA COMPARED TO CALIFORNIA, YOU START TO SEE THE VARIATIONS ACROSS THE STATE IN DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES. 
          UM, A FEW THINGS THAT WE'VE ADDED RECENTLY, AND THIS IS REALLY BECAUSE THE CDC WORKING WITH SOME EXTERNAL PARTNERS FINALLY STARTED COMING UP WITH SOME REALLY GOOD HEALTH DATA. 
          AS SOON AS WE CAME UP WITH EJ GREEN BACK IN 2013, PEOPLE ARE LIKE, WHERE'S THE HEALTH DATA? THEY'RE LIKE, IT ONLY EXISTS AT THE COUNTY LEVEL. 
          THAT'S NOT GONNA HELP ANYBODY FOR EJ, RIGHT? WE CAN GIVE YOU COUNTY LEVEL DATA, BUT WHO CARES, RIGHT? WE NEEDED REALLY FINE, UH, FINE, UH, DATA. 
          SO CDC FINALLY HAS CENSUS TRACK LEVEL DATA. 
          IT'S NOT BLOCK GROUP, BUT CENSUS TRACK IS A HECK OF A LOT BETTER THAN THAN A COUNTY. 
          SO WE'VE PUT THESE IN HERE. 
          WE'RE LOOKING AT PUTTING A FEW MORE IN HERE. 
          THIS WAS JUST OUR FIRST ATTEMPT. 
          WE, WE KIND OF WANTED TO SEE HOW THE USERS EXPERIENCED HAVING THIS HEALTH INFORMATION IN EJ SCREEN. 
          WE'RE LOOKING AT ADDING CANCER. 
          WE'RE LOOKING AT, UH, ADDING A FEW OTHER THINGS IN THIS NEXT UPDATE THAT COMES OUT, UH, WE'VE ADDED A LOT OF CLIMATE INDICATORS. 
          SO, FLOODING, DROUGHT, WILDFIRE, UH, AND I WANNA SAY THIS IS, UH, GIVING, GIVING MY TEAM A PAT ON THE BACK. 
          WE ACTUALLY GOT A COUPLE OF THESE IN DURING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, . 
          UM, WE SNUCK 'EM, WE SNUCK THEM IN, IS ONE OF THE SLICKEST THINGS WE'VE DONE. 
          UH, UH, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE WHAT . 
          SO YOU GOTTA DO WHAT YOU GOTTA DO. 
          YOU GOTTA DO WHAT YOU GOTTA DO FOR ALL EJ ADVOCATES. 
          UH, UH, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE SOME CRITICAL SERVICE GAPS. 
          UM, SO LOOKING AT THINGS LIKE, UH, FOOD DESERTS, MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS, OTHERS, UM, THERE'S NO BLACK TRAINS. 
          UM, SO, UH, I WON'T GO INTO ALL THE, ALL THE, HOW TO ACTUALLY LOOK AT EJ SCREEN, UH, 'CAUSE I DON'T WANNA TAKE TOO MUCH TIME. 
          THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS YOU CAN DO. 
          YOU CAN PULL REPORTS OR YOU CAN JUST, UM, NAVIGATE IN THE TOOL AND YOU CAN LOOK AT THE DIFFERENT DATA LIVE IN THE TOOL AND YOU CAN PULL IN OTHER STUFF, RIGHT? YOU CAN PULL IN PLACES. 
          YOU, THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS TO DO DIFFERENT FORMS OF ANALYSIS JUST RIGHT THERE IN THE TOOL. 
          AND THE TOOL IS ALSO DOWNLOADABLE. 
          SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT GIS 
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IS, I JUST KNOW IT'S AN ACRONYM FOR A PROGRAM THAT I DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE. 
          BUT YOU CAN, IF YOU KNOW GIS OR IF YOUR ORGANIZATION HAS SOMEBODY THAT'S A GIS EXPERT, THEY CAN DOWNLOAD THE ENTIRE TOOL INTO THEIR MACHINE AND THEY CAN START COMBINING IT WITH YOUR OWN DATA. 
          AND THAT'S ACTUALLY WHAT A LOT OF STATES THAT ARE USING OR DEVELOPING THEIR OWN TOOLS RIGHT NOW. 
          THEY'RE KIND OF USING EJ SCREEN AS A BACKBONE TO BUILD THEIR OTHER MORE SPECIFIC STATE-BASED TOOLS. 
          'CAUSE YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE THING INTO YOUR OWN SYSTEM. 
          UM, THERE'S SOME MORE TOOLS, LOT OF THINGS, LOT OF FUN THINGS YOU CAN DO. 
          I, I THINK I'LL STOP THERE. 
          YEAH, I'LL STOP THERE AND, UH, WE'LL PASS IT ON TO GRACE. 
          YEAH. 
          DENE. 
          OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          THANK Y'ALL. 
          OR IF PEOPLE WANNA ASK QUESTIONS, I GUESS THERE, I'M GONNA ASK IF THERE ARE A FEW QUESTIONS BEFORE GRACE STARTS. 
          I HAD A, YOU HAVE A QUESTION, DR. 
          BULL? NOT A QUESTION, BUT I DID WANT TO SAY, UH, GIVE KUDOS TO EPA FOLLOWING UP ON RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE EARLY KNEE JACK. 
          THAT WAS FIRST ONE WAS 93 OR FOUR, I FORGET WHEN IT WAS THREE. 
          I SERVED ON THAT KNEE JACK ALONG WITH SOME OF THE OTHER OLDER EJ FOLKS. 
          AND WE INSISTED BEFORE WE GOT EJ SCREEN, THERE WERE ITERATIONS OF, UH, VARIOUS ITERATIONS OF THE EJ SCREEN UNDER ANOTHER NAME. 
          AND THERE WAS ALWAYS HESITANCY AND COLD FEET ABOUT ROLLING OUT A COMPREHENSIVE, UH, SCREENING TOOL COMING FROM EPA. 
          AND THOSE OF US WHO WERE ON THAT KNEE JACK, UH, ONE AND TWO KEPT INSISTING, INSISTING THAT EPA STEP UP AND RELEASE THIS TOOL THAT WE HAD WORKED ON IN THESE SUBCOMMITTEES ON THE KNEE JACK. 
          AND, AND AS IT TURNS OUT, THE PERSISTENCE. 
          AND THEN WITH THE NEW ADMINISTRATION UNDER OBAMA, UH, UH, TAKING IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL. 
          AND AS WE LOOK AT THE EJ STREAM EVEN, UH, ADVANCING AND IN PULLING IN ADDITIONAL DATA, THE HEALTH DATA WE FOUGHT AND FOUGHT TO GET MORE HEALTH DATA IN. 
          AND THE CDC REACHED ACROSS THE CDC BECAUSE WHEN WE FIRST ASKED EPA TO DO THIS, UH, IN THE EARLY NINETIES, EPA SAID, WE ARE NOT A HEALTH AGENCY . 
          AND THEY REFUSED TO. 
          YEAH. 
          BUT AGAIN, WITH THE INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP, WHICH INCLUDED EPA AND CDC, UH, THERE WAS MORE HEALTH DATA BEGINNING TO BE PLACED IN THERE. 
          AND I THINK THERE'S EVEN MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO PUT MORE HEALTH DATA IN WITH CDCS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE INDEX, WHICH IS A CUMULATIVE INDEX. 
          AND TO, AND TO, AND TO SHY AWAY FROM E THINKING ABOUT EEG, UH, EPA, UH, NOT IN A HEALTH MM-HMM . 
          UM, HEALTH MODE AS OPPOSED TO JUST A REGULATORY, THAT'S BEEN A BIG SHIFT FROM THE NI EARLY NINETIES TO WHERE WE ARE NOW IN THE 2020S. 
          AND I THINK IT, IT TAKES THE PERSISTENCE OF THE STAFF WITHIN EPA TO KEEP REACHING OUT, REACHING ACROSS TO ADD MORE LAYERS TO MAKE EJS SCREEN EVEN BETTER, BETTER AND BETTER. 
          YES. 
          MM-HMM . 
          THANK YOU. 
          NOW THAT'S, I GIVE KUDOS TO E EJ ON THAT ONE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THERE'S A QUESTION IN THE BACK THE PAGE. 
          I THINK ONE QUESTION. 
          SO I NEED, UM, ON THERE ABOUT, WELL, THAT MAY NOT HAVE A CURRENT RISK MANAGE. 
          I JUST WANTED TO MIX THROUGH THAT AND THEN ASK THE QUESTION ABOUT THE DRINKING WATER SOURCES. 
          AND AS YOU SORT OF LIKE, HOPE TO THAT DATA, IS IT JUST A MATTER YOU OR IS IT A METHOD? SO, SO WE'RE, UH, AS LONG AS THE DATA IS GOOD, WE'RE GONNA ADD THE WELLS IN THIS NEXT UPDATE. 
          UM, THAT'S ONE OF THE ONES, THERE'S SEVERAL DATA SETS WE'VE BEEN EXCITED FOR, FOR, FOR A LONG TIME. 
          AND IT'S REALLY BEEN THIS ADMINISTRATION THAT HAS ALLOWED THE SPACE FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO START ADDRESSING SOME OF THOSE ISSUES. 
          AND, UH, THE WELLS IS GONNA BE ONE OF THE FIRST ONES WHERE WE THINK THE DATA'S FINALLY GONNA BE, UM, RELIABLE ENOUGH TO PUT IT INTO EJ SCREEN. 
          UM, ON THE DRINKING WATER ONE, WE ARE ACTUALLY, HOPEFULLY, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S GONNA MAKE IT FOR THIS UPDATE, BUT IF NOT, IT'S GONNA BE PRETTY SOON. 
          UM, WE'RE HOPING TO HAVE, UH, A LAYER ON LEAD SERVICE LINES AND LOCATION. 
          THAT'S ACTUALLY A HUGE ISSUE. 
          YEAH. 
          UH, IS WHERE OUR, WHERE DO LEAD SERVICE LINES EXIST 
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IN THE GROUND, NOT JUST FOR US TO KNOW, BUT LIKE WHEN PEOPLE ACTUALLY GET MONEY TO REMEDIATE THEM. 
          LIKE ACTUALLY BEING ABLE TO DIG THE RIGHT YARD AND LOOK AT THAT ISSUE OF, WELL, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE ONLY GONNA DIG A THOUSAND YARDS, WE NEED TO KNOW WHERE THE LEAD SERVICE LINES ARE. 
          AND THEN WE ALSO NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE VULNERABILITY OF THE COMMUNITY IS SO THAT WE CAN PRIORITIZE DIGGING THE LINES OUT OF THE COMMUNITIES THAT ARE MOST VULNERABLE TO IT. 
          RIGHT? SO THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE WE GET INTO USING THINGS LIKE, WELL, WHERE ARE THE COMMUNITIES OF COLOR? WHERE ARE THE COMMUNITIES THAT ARE MOST EXPOSED TO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS SO THAT WE CAN REMEDIATE THESE LEAD SERVICE LINES FROM THEM? UM, THE ISSUE THOUGH, OF THE DRINKING WATER, WHAT WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING RIGHT NOW, AND IT'S AN EFFORT BETWEEN OUR ECONOMICS OFFICE AT EPA, OUR ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS OFFICE, OUR ENFORCEMENT OFFICE, AND THE WATER OFFICE IS THEY'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO EVERY, UH, PUBLIC DRINKING WATER UTILITY WEBSITE IN THE UNITED STATES. 
          AND THEY'RE SCRAPING THE DATA OFF OF THEIR SITES AND BUILDING OUR, OR KIND OF HACKING OUR OWN NATIONAL DATA SET. 
          BECAUSE IT WOULD TAKE A RULE, IT WOULD TAKE A PRETTY, PRETTY, UH, MUSCLY RULE TO GET EVERY STATE AND EVERY UTILITY IN EVERY STATE TO HAVE THE DATA IN A CONSISTENT FORMAT AND TO REPORT THAT DATA IN A REGULAR WAY TO THEIR STATES. 
          AND THEN THE STATES TO REPORT IT TO US. 
          AND NOT EVERYBODY WANTS TO DO THAT, UH, WHICH IS WEIRD, BUT THEY DON'T. 
          AND I THINK WE ALL KNOW WHY. 
          UM, SO WE'RE KIND OF HACKING OUR WAY AROUND THAT RIGHT NOW. 
          AND, AND MY HOPE IS THAT AS WE HACK OUR WAY AROUND THAT, ONCE WE ACTUALLY GET THAT DATA SET, LIKE I'M A, I'M A BIG BELIEVER IN THE POWER OF DATA. 
          AND IF YOU CAN MAKE DATA TRANSPARENT AND MAKE IT, AND PRESENTED IT IN A WAY THAT'S USEFUL FOR US, REGULAR HUMAN BEINGS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE HELL IT MEANS, IT FORCES PEOPLE TO REACT TO IT. 
          SO I'M HOPEFUL THAT THIS HACKING OUR WAY THROUGH IT WILL LEAD US TO A PLACE WHERE WE ACTUALLY HAVE A MORE REGULAR, CONSISTENT WAY OF GETTING THAT DATA ACROSS THE UNITED STATES. 
          ONE MORE, ONE MORE QUESTION. 
          UM, I'M WONDERING HOW ARE YOU DEALING WITH DATA, RIGHT? I'LL, IF, IF, IF I COULD TO NAVIGATE, I'D SHOW YOU. 
          WE'RE PRETTY PROUD OF OUR, WE, WE SPENT THE LAST THREE YEARS ACTUALLY LOOKING AT EVERY GEOGRAPHIC DATA SET OR, UM, GEOGRAPHY THAT WE COULD TO GET, UH, INDIGENOUS AREAS. 
          SO WE ACTUALLY HAVE A WHOLE MENU OF INDIGENOUS AREAS THAT INCLUDES THE FAIRLY RECOGNIZED TRIBES, WHICH IS PRETTY OBVIOUS. 
          BUT EVEN THOSE LANDS GET PRETTY WILD, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU GET INTO THESE AREAS CALLED THE CHECKERBOARD, WHERE LIKE EVERY SQUARE MILE CHANGES, YOU KNOW, WHO OWNS IT OR WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT, LIKE THAT PART OF THE WORLD, IT CAN JUST BE PRETTY, UM, PRETTY TOUGH TO GRAPPLE WITH. 
          UM, BUT WE HAVE A WHOLE SET OF, UM, OF LAYERS THAT ALLOWS YOU TO LOOK AT FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED TRIBES, STATE RECOGNIZED TRIBES, OTHER INDIGENOUS ORGANIZATIONS, THEIR LANDS. 
          LIKE WE'VE REALLY TRIED TO LOOK UNDER EVERY ROCK AND CORNER, UM, TO FIND AS MUCH AS WE COULD TO REALLY TRULY REPRESENT INDIGENOUS SPACES IN THE TOOL. 
          ONE OF THE TOOL'S BIGGEST WEAKNESSES, AND ONE OF THE BIGGEST WEAKNESSES OF EVERY TOOL, ESPECIALLY IF THEY'RE WORKING AT THE STATE OR NATIONAL LEVEL, IS JUST DATA IN RURAL AMERICA. 
          AND THAT'S GONNA CUT AGAINST A LOT OF INDIGENOUS ISSUES AS WELL. 
          OUR DATA JUST DOES NOT PENETRATE AND IS NOT AS RICH IN RURAL PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AND ESPECIALLY OUTSIDE OF THE NON-CONTIGUOUS 48, AS IN THE MORE HEAVILY POPULATED AREAS. 
          AND THERE'S SOME ISSUES OF THAT, OF JUST BEING, WELL, THERE'S MORE PEOPLE, THERE'S MORE THINGS. 
          BUT THERE'S ALSO, I, THERE'S ALSO SOME REAL INHERENT BIAS IN OUR SCIENCE, IN OUR RESEARCH, UM, INSTITUTIONS AND FUNDING ACROSS THE UNITED STATES THAT HAS PREFERENCE, UM, HAVING REALLY RICH DATA FOR THE PLACES WHERE MORE PEOPLE LIVE AND GIVING SHORT SHRIFT TO PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES WHERE FEWER PEOPLE LIVE, BUT THOSE PEOPLE ARE STILL IN THE UNITED STATES. 
          THEY STILL DESERVE THE SAME TREATMENT AND COVERAGE AS EVERYONE ELSE. 
          SO THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS TOO THAT WE TRY TO EMPHASIZE IN EJ SCREEN. 
          LIKE THINGS ARE MISSING. 
          THE EJ, THE J PROGRAM AT EPA CAN'T GO OUT AND GET ALL OF THE DATA. 
          WE'RE NOT A DATA COLLECTION SERVICE, BUT THE REST OF THE GOVERNMENT REALLY NEEDS TO, TO LIFT UP THE FACT THAT WE ARE, THERE'S A, THERE'S A DISPARITY JUST IN DATA IN THE UNITED STATES. 
          AND THE GOVERNMENT HAS A HUGE RESPONSIBILITY IN TRYING TO CORRECT THAT DISPARITY, ELIMINATE THAT DISPARITY. 
          THANK YOU, DR. 
          ADA. 
          WELL SAID . 
          SO I AM GOING TO FOLLOW EJS SCREEN OG OF MAPPING AND SCRUTINY, UM, WITH OUR CLIMATE VULNERABILITY INDEX. 
          UM, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE DEVELOPED IN COLLABORATION WITH A NUMBER OF PARTNERS 
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WHO ARE HERE. 
          UM, AND I'LL JUST PUT UP A SLIDE, UH, ABOUT OUR ORGANIZATION, THE ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND, AND, UM, FINDING WAYS THAT WORK, BUT, UM, TRYING TO TACKLE DIFFICULT ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS WITH AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE DRIVEN, POLICY DRIVEN, UM, APPROACH. 
          AND I JUST WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE, UM, THE CONTRIBUTORS WHO HELP MAKE THE CLIMATE VULNERABILITY INDEX. 
          IT WAS A PARTNERSHIP WITH MANY ORGANIZATIONS. 
          AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT COLLABORATORS IN DEVELOPING THIS TOOL, WHICH IS UNLIKE OTHER TOOLS THAT ARE AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW, UM, IS THAT WE WORK CLOSELY WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS LIKE COCO, UM, THE COALITION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS WHO'S HOSTING THIS EVENT TODAY WITH ACTS, UM, FROM PLEASANTVILLE WITH, UM, SUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION IN SUNNYSIDE. 
          UM, PARTNERS LIKE, UM, IN WILL COUNTY IN ILLINOIS, UM, IN, UM, THE SOUTH BRONX, UM, IN NEW YORK AND IN MICHIGAN, UH, UM, TO HELP GIVE THEIR INPUT ON WHAT WAS IMPORTANT TO THEM, WHAT WAS REFLECTING THEIR LIVED EXPERIENCE, WHAT DATA THEY WANTED, UM, AND NEEDED FOR THEIR OWN ADVOCACY EFFORTS. 
          AND I WANTED TO THANK, UM, ALSO TSU AND THE BULLARD CENTER BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN PARTNERS WITH US FROM DAY ONE. 
          AND I'M SURE BECAUSE DR. 
          BULLARD IS AMAZING AND LOVES MAPS . 
          UM, BUT ALSO, UM, OUR PARTNERS AT TEXAS A AND M AND TEXAS A M TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE WHO HELP CREATE AND PUT THIS TOOL TOGETHER AND GATHER OUR DATA. 
          SO AS DR. 
          BULLARD HAD MENTIONED, AND AS DR. 
          TEJADA HAS ALSO, YOU KNOW, TALKED ABOUT TODAY, WE'VE HEARD FROM DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE TALKS TODAY, THE FACT IS THAT ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH AND THE CLIMATE, THEY ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED. 
          AND EVERY DAY IN THE MEDIA, WE'RE SEEING, YOU KNOW, NOT JUST HERE IN HOUSTON WHERE WE ARE PRONE TO FLOODING AND HURRICANES, BUT WE'RE SEEING MORE AND MORE DROUGHTS, WINTER STORMS, UM, WILDFIRES AND OTHER CLIMATE RELATED DISASTERS. 
          AND WE SEE THAT TIME AND AGAIN, THEY'RE OFTEN HITTING THE SAME COMMUNITIES, UM, OF COLOR AND LOW WEALTH. 
          THE WORST, AND THIS IS NOT BY CHANCE, I THINK WE ALL HAVE COME TO RECOGNIZE THAT THESE PERSISTENT INEQUALITIES IN ENVIRONMENT, IN HEALTH, AND NOW IN CLIMATE HAVE BEEN HERE AND ARE THE RESULT OF POLICIES IN THE PAST LIKE REDLINING, UM, AND OTHER, UM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND SEGREGATION THAT HAVE LED TO THE SIGHTING OF INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES AND, UM, THE CLUSTERING OF FACILITIES IN BLACK AND BROWN NEIGHBORHOODS OF LOW WEALTH. 
          AND THAT HAS IN TURN RESULTED IN HEALTH DISPARITIES, LOWER LIFE EXPECTANCIES, HIGHER RATES OF CHRONIC DISEASE, UM, MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH, POOR MATERNAL AND CHILD, CHILD HEALTH OUTCOMES. 
          UM, JUST A BEVY OF, UM, INDICATORS WHERE WE SEE LOWER LIFE EXPECTANCY OF UP TO 20 AND 30 YEARS IN A CITY LIKE HOUSTON, UM, IN COMPARISON FOR, UM, A BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITY ON THE EAST SIDE IN COMPARISON TO A MORE AFFLUENT COMMUNITY HERE IN OUR CITY. 
          AND THAT IS JUST NOT RIGHT. 
          AND I THINK COVID REALLY MAGNIFIED AND EXEMPLIFIED THAT FOR US BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THOSE SAME INDUSTRIAL SOURCES THAT ARE PRODUCING, UM, DISPARITIES IN HEALTH OUTCOMES WERE THE SAME OUTCOMES THAT ALSO, UM, RESULTED IN A HIGHER RISK OF DEVELOPING SEVERE COV AND MORTALITY IN, UM, THESE VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES IN OUR CITY AND ACROSS THE UNITED STATES. 
          SO THE QUESTION IS, IS CLIMATE OUR NEXT, UM, INJUSTICE THAT WE'RE REALLY EXPERIENCING AND SEEING? AND I THINK THE ANSWER TO THAT IS QUITE OBVIOUS BECAUSE AS DR. 
          BULLARD HAD MENTIONED IN HIS, UM, KEYNOTE SPEAK THIS AFTERNOON, WE ARE SEEING THAT THERE IS A LACK OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE THAT IS CAUSING HIGHER TEMPERATURES. 
          WE'RE SEEING URBAN HEAT ISLANDS IN, IN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR AND LOW WEALTH BECAUSE OF THAT DISINVESTMENT, THE LACK OF INVESTMENT, I SHOULD SAY, IN INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          AND THE NEED FOR US TO REALLY, UM, DIG INTO THE FACT THAT THESE DISPARITIES, THE FLOODING, THE HEAT, ALL OF THESE ARE IMPACTING AND OVERBURDENING EXISTING COMMUNITIES THAT ARE ALREADY, UM, OVERBURDENED BY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. 
          AND SO I THINK WE HAVE TO RECOGNIZE, AS WE SAID FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, THAT CLIMATE ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED. 
          AND IF WE WANT TO MAKE SOME REAL PROGRESS ON THIS, WE HAVE TO MAKE 
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THAT EXPLICIT RECOGNITION AND TRY TO TACKLE THESE PROBLEMS TOGETHER. 
          AND SO WE, UM, WANT TO UNDERSTAND THIS AND WE DEVELOP AS PART OF, UM, THIS IS A 2.0 VERSION OF WHAT WE HAVE BEGUN YEARS AGO ON OUR DATA TO ACTION PROJECT, UM, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH EJ COMMUNITIES AND WITH THE BULLARD CENTER, UM, TO TRY TO MAKE DATA ACTIONABLE. 
          AND SO WE WANT TO TAKE A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING, UM, WHAT ARE THOSE FACTORS THAT LEAD TO VULNERABILITY, CUMULATIVE VULNERABILITY, AND WHERE ARE THOSE COMMUNITIES AND THAT ARE BEING IMPACTED MOST, THE MOST DISADVANTAGED? AND SO THIS EFFORT OF THE CLIMATE VULNERABILITY INDEX IS TO PUT ALL OF THAT TOGETHER. 
          UM, WE ARE ABLE TO, UM, PUT TOGETHER OVER 184 INDICATORS THAT IS THE MOST INDICATORS OF ANY TOOL THAT IS AVAILABLE ON A NATIONAL SCALE IN THE US. 
          AND SO I THINK THAT'S A HUGE ACCOMPLISHMENT. 
          UM, AND WE, UM, FOCUSED ON ANNUAL DATA PRIMARILY FROM 2017 TO 2019, BUT WE DO HAVE DATA THAT SPANS INTO THE 2020S. 
          UM, AND THAT IS FOR ALL 50 STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AT THE CENSUS TRACK LEVEL. 
          AND SO DR. 
          DHARA TOLD YOU A LOT OF, UM, CONSIDERATIONS OF THE DIFFICULTIES OF PUTTING DATA TOGETHER, UM, ON A NATIONAL LEVEL, UM, AT A GEOGRAPHIC RESOLUTION THAT IS MEANINGFUL BECAUSE EJ AND CLIMATE JUSTICE AND HEALTH DISPARITIES ARE NOT HAPPENING ON A BROADER, UM, SCALE. 
          THEY ARE HAPPENING ON A LOCAL SCALE. 
          AND SO WE NEED TO REALLY THINK ABOUT THAT . 
          AND SO OUR TOOL, OBVIOUSLY, AS I MENTIONED, USES, UM, INTEGRATION OF ALL OF THESE DATA AND WE'RE ABLE TO CREATE A UNITLESS INDEX SCORE. 
          UM, AND THAT IS, UM, THEN VISUALIZED, UM, WE'RE ABLE TO MAP THAT AND WE'RE ABLE TO ALSO CREATE DATA VISUALIZATIONS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT ARE THE DRIVERS OF VULNERABILITY FOR COMMUNITY SO THAT THEY CAN THEN DIG IN AND UNDERSTAND WHAT IS THE INTERSECTION, WHAT IS CAUSING YOUR COMMUNITY TO BE VI UH, VULNERABLE, HOW CAN YOU BEGIN TO TACKLE THE ISSUES AND MAKE CHANGE IN YOUR, IN THE COMMUNITIES THAT ARE MOST VULNERABLE? UM, AND TO EMPOWER THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS, UM, RESIDENTS, ADVOCATES TO THEN TAKE THIS DATA AND MAKE IT ACTIONABLE. 
          UM, TRY TO FIND FUNDING TO ADDRESS THOSE DISPARITIES. 
          UH, TRY TO HAVE ACTION AND WORK WITH PLANNERS AND DECISION MAKERS TO, TO USE THIS DATA TO MAKE IT, UM, TO MAKE MORE RESILIENT COMMUNITIES. 
          AND SO WE HAVE TAKEN, THIS IS JUST A PIVOTING NOW TO TALK ABOUT THE TOOL AND THE DATA ITSELF. 
          WE'VE TAKEN THESE 184 INDICATORS AND WE'VE PUT THEM INTO TWO BIG BUCKETS, BASELINE VULNERABILITIES, WHICH YOU SEE HERE ON THE LEFT, AND CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS, UM, ON THE RIGHT. 
          AND SO THE MAJORITY OF THESE ARE LOOKING AT, UH, FOR THE BASELINE VULNERABILITIES, EXISTING DATA, WHEREAS IN THE CLIMATE CHANGE RISKS AND IN, UH, EXTREME EVENTS, SOCIOECONOMIC AND HEALTH, THE MAJORITY OF THOSE ARE PREDICTIONS, EVEN THOUGH THE, UM, EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS ALSO INCLUDES HISTORICAL DATA. 
          AND SO I WILL JUST GIVE YOU A VERY QUICK RUN THROUGH, UH, BECAUSE I KNOW YOU CAN'T READ 184 INDICATORS, , , UM, OF WHAT'S INCLUDED HERE. 
          AND YOU CAN SEE ON THE TOP THE RATIONALE. 
          AND SO WE HAVE THINGS LIKE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, NOT ONLY THE PREVALENCE OF CHRONIC DISEASES, BUT WHAT ARE THE IMPACTS OF MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH, UM, CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION, INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 
          AND SO COMMUNITY MEMBERS ARE, WERE INTERESTED IN LOOKING AT COVID VACCINATIONS, ACCESS TO CARE. 
          UM, THEY WERE ALSO INTERESTED IN LOOKING AT, UM, OVERDOSE AND, UM, MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES AND THE LIKE. 
          AND SO WE MADE SURE TO TRY TO INCORPORATE THOSE FACTORS. 
          'CAUSE WE RECOGNIZE THAT THESE ARE NOT ONLY BARRIERS TO THEIR RESILIENCE, UM, BUT THEY ARE, WILL PLAY A GREAT ROLE IN THE COMMUNITY'S ABILITY TO BE SUSTAINABLE AS WELL, AND TO HAVE THE ECONOMIC, UM, WHEREWITHAL TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE. 
          AND SO HERE THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS, AND HERE WE INCLUDE A LOT OF FACTORS. 
          UM, AGAIN, UM, THINGS THAT ARE NOT TRADITIONALLY INCLUDED IN, UM, OTHER TOOLS LIKE HOMELESS POPULATION. 
          WE'VE GOT A LAYER HERE FOR REDLINING, UM, HATE CRIMES, UH, UNDOCUMENTED POPULATION. 
          SO I THINK THERE'S A WHOLE WEALTH OF INFORMATION IN THIS, WHICH IS SPEAKING TO VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES AND VULNERABLE SUB SENSITIVE POPULATIONS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY TO TRY TO GET AT THAT AS WELL AS LOOKING AT HOUSING. 
          UM, AND, UM, DISABILITY AND LEVELS OF, WE HAD INCLUDE GUN VIOLENCE AS WELL AS THINGS THAT 
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FORTIFY A COMMUNITY, LIKE THE PRESENCE OF COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS AND RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS, BECAUSE I THINK THAT IS A CRITICAL AND IMPORTANT THING TO KNOW WHO CAN, HOW MUCH OF THAT IN HAS, UM, HOW DOES THAT CENSUS TRACKER THAT NEIGHBORHOOD HAVE THE CAPACITY, UM, TO BE ABLE TO RESPOND TO THOSE ISSUES. 
          INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          THIS IS ANOTHER, UH, DOMAIN OR CATEGORY THAT'S INCLUDED IN OUR TOOL, WHICH IS VERY UNIQUE. 
          AND MOST OTHER TOOLS AVAILABLE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE DO NOT INCLUDE THIS PARTICULAR SET OF INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          AND A LOT OF THIS WAS WE JACK RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, WE WENT THROUGH AND MADE SURE TO TRY TO, UH, GET AS MANY OF THOSE AS WE COULD. 
          UM, BUT RECOGNIZING THAT A LOT OF TIMES THE DATA IS NOT AVAILABLE ON A NATIONAL LEVEL, BUT INFRASTRUCTURE IN PARTICULAR IS SOMEWHERE WHERE WE RECOGNIZE THAT THOSE, IT'S A PART OF SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH. 
          IT'S A PART OF, OF EQUITY AND JUSTICE FOR COMMUNITIES. 
          AND, AND I THINK LIKE NOT HAVING INTERNET TO BE ABLE TO MAKE A DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENT OR HAVE THE TRANSPORTATION TO GET PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, UM, OR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION, UH, REALLY LIMITS, UM, A COMMUNITY'S RESILIENCE. 
          WE HAVE THINGS LIKE VOTER TURNOUT, UM, UNBANKED HOUSEHOLDS, AS WELL AS INFORMATION ON FOOD DESERTS BECAUSE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF OUR COMMUNITIES THAT WE WORK WITH ARE FOOD, UH, INSECURE IN FOOD DESERTS AND BASELINE ENVIRONMENT. 
          UM, YOU OF COURSE WE HAVE POLLUTION SOURCES, TRANSPORTATION SOURCES, AND THE CRITERIA POLLUTANTS HERE. 
          UM, AND THIS IS INTERESTING BECAUSE WE'VE WORKED WITH THE NASA HAY CAST, THE, UM, HATE, UH, WHICH IS A GROUP OF, UH, SCIENTISTS THAT USES SATELLITE DATA FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. 
          AND SO WE'VE USED THAT BECAUSE MOST PLACES IN THE UNITED STATES DON'T HAVE, UM, SUFFICIENT, UH, AIR MONITORING. 
          AND SO YOU CAN THEN USE SATELLITE DATA, OR SATELLITE DATA, I SHOULD SAY, IS BEING USED IN A NOVEL WAY TO HAVE A MEASUREMENT OF, UM, AIR QUALITY ACROSS THE UNITED STATES THAT HASN'T BEEN AVAILABLE BEFORE AS WELL AS LAND USE. 
          AND THEN WE HAVE THE CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON HEALTH, WHICH IS OUR LEAST POPULATED, UM, DOMAIN BECAUSE THIS DATA IS JUST INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT TO GET PROJECTIONS ON HEALTH DATA FOR SOME REASON. 
          AND SO THIS IS AN AREA I WOULD SAY REALLY NEEDS A LOT OF FORTIFICATION, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE. 
          AGAIN, UM, THIS ONE HAS INCLUDES INFORMATION LIKE THE COST OF DIFFERENT CLIMATE DISASTERS AND HOW THAT IS DISTRIBUTED ACROSS THE UNITED STATES, AS WELL AS SOCIAL STRESSORS AND TRANSITION RISKS, AND OF COURSE, EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS AND THEIR CON CONTRIBUTION TO, UM, VULNERABILITY. 
          SO THIS IS A MAP OF OUR OVERALL CVI CLIMATE VULNERABILITY INDEX SCORE. 
          SO EACH ONE OF THOSE DOMAINS, WE TOOK ALL 184 INDICATORS WITHIN THEIR DOMAINS AND ACROSS THEIR DOMAINS, AND WE DEVELOPED A UNITLESS INDEX SCORE AND THEN WE'RE ABLE TO VISUALIZE THAT SCORE. 
          AND THIS IS THE MAP OF ALL OF THOSE SCORES. 
          AND YOU'LL SEE THAT ALONG IN THE SOUTHWEST SOUTHEAST PART OF THE UNITED STATES, WHERE WE HAVE TRADITIONALLY HAD A LOT OF, UM, VULNERABILITY AS A RESULT OF, UM, PAST POLICIES, UH, DISCRIMINATORY AND SEGREGATION POLICIES THAT HAVE RESULTED IN DISPARITIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES, BUT EXTREMELY SO WITHIN THE SOUTHEAST, THAT IS WHERE WE HAVE OUR OVERALL, UM, GREATEST, UM, CU CUMULATIVE VULNERABILITY, UM, TO CLIMATE, ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH. 
          BUT I THINK WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE IS THAT NO STATE IN THE UNITED STATES, 50 STATES AND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IS IMMUNE TO CLIMATE. 
          SO AGAIN, THIS IS, WE CAN VISUALIZE OUR CBI SCORE, UM, OVERALL JUST BY BASELINE, UH, DOMAINS, UM, ONLY BY CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT DOMAINS, AND YOU CAN VISUALIZE EACH SPECIFIC DOMAIN BY ITSELF. 
          AND HERE, JUST AGAIN, REITERATING THAT THOSE COMMUNITIES THAT ARE TRADITIONALLY HAVE BEEN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COMMUNITIES ARE THE ONES THAT RISE TO THE TOP AS HAVING THE HIGHEST OVERALL CLIMATE VULNERABILITY INDEX OVERALL SCORE. 
          UM, AND THAT WE, WE DO SEE THOSE DOMAIN SPECIFIC DIFFERENCES. 
          UM, AND THIS MAP IS JUST A REPRESENTATION OF WHERE IN THE US SO THE SHADED COLOR REPRESENTS, UM, WITH THE DARKEST COLOR BEING THE HIGHEST SCORE, BUT THE IN ORANGE, THESE ARE THE TOP 5%, THE CENSUS TRACKS OR COMMUNITIES, NEIGHBORHOODS THAT RANK IN THE TOP 5% NATIONALLY. 
          AND AGAIN, YOU'LL SEE WHERE THEY'RE CONCENTRATED AS WE DIG IN CLOSER, BECAUSE THAT'S A VERY ZOOMED OUT 
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VIEW. 
          WE SEE THIS IS OUR HOUSTON GALVESTON, BRAZORIA EIGHT COUNTY NON-ATTAINMENT REGION. 
          AND THESE ARE THE THREE COMMUNITIES THAT I MENTIONED EARLIER WHO WERE PARTNERS IN BEING ABLE TO, UM, HELP US DEVELOP THIS TOOL, GIVING US INPUT. 
          FIFTH WARD, PLEASANTVILLE, AND SUNNYSIDE. 
          AND YOU SEE THAT THEY WERE ALSO AMONG THE HIGHEST RANKING. 
          AND I'M JUST GIVING YOU THIS QUICK LOOK OF HOW DO WE RANK, AND THIS IS THE OVERALL VIEW OF WHERE TEXAS RANKS. 
          IT'S IN THE TOP 20%. 
          IT RANKS NUMBER 10 OUT OF 51, UM, IN TERMS OF THE 50 STATES. 
          UM, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT INFRASTRUCTURE, THEY'RE NUMBER NINE OUT OF 51. 
          THEY'RE UH, IN THE 84TH PERCENTILE. 
          AND YOU CAN SEE THE SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, HOW HIGH WE RANK TOP 4% THERE. 
          AND FOR HARRIS COUNTY, UM, WE ALSO ARE RANKING IN THE TOP 10% ACROSS ALL OF COUNTIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES. 
          SO THERE ARE OVER 3000 OF THEM. 
          AND I WANNA POINT OUT THAT HOUSTON, UH, OR THE HARRIS COUNTY, I SHOULD SAY, NOT JUST HOUSTON, BUT ONLY HARRIS COUNTY, UH, RANKS NUMBER THREE OUT OF 3,143 COUNTIES IN THE UNITED STATES FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOR BASELINE ENVIRONMENT, WE ARE IN THE TOP 1%. 
          YOU'RE ELITE  AND ALSO, AGAIN, THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE. 
          AND SO I'M GOING TO JUST GIVE A QUICK, AS I'M ROLLING DOWN TOWARDS THE END VIEW OF HARRIS COUNTY, WE'VE GOT ACTUALLY FOUR CENSUS TRACKS THAT RANKED IN THE TOP 100 CENSUS TRACKS AMONG 73,000 CENSUS TRACKS IN THE US AND ONE OF THEM PLEASANTVILLE, UM, RANKED 26TH OUT OF 73005TH WARD, WHOSE BOUNDARIES I'M SHOWING HERE TODAY. 
          AND OUR BLOCK CAPTAINS ARE IN THE BACK, UM, . 
          UM, THEY ARE THE, AND SO DIGGING INTO THE VISUALIZATION, AS I MENTIONED TO YOU, I I SHOWED YOU THOSE PIES AND EACH ONE OF THESE ARE COLOR COORDINATED TO, UH, DOMAIN, BUT THE SIZE OF THE PIE WEDGE IS PROPORTIONAL TO ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE OVERALL SCORE. 
          AND SO THIS ALLOWS US TO VISUALIZE AND UNDERSTAND VISUALLY LIKE WHICH CATEGORIES HAVE THE GREATEST CONTRIBUTION TO THE OVERALL CUMULATIVE VULNERABILITY OF A COMMUNITY. 
          AND SO I'M PUTTING UP FIFTH WORDS HERE. 
          YOU CAN SEE THERE ARE EIGHT CENSUS TRACKS THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED IN FIFTH WARD. 
          UM, AND WHAT IS DRIVING THEIR HIGH SCORE? WHAT IS DRIVING THEM TO BE IN THE TOP 2% NATIONALLY IS ALL OF THE FOUR BASELINE. 
          THEY RANK HIGH IN ALL FOUR BASELINE CATEGORIES AS WELL AS THE CLIMATE CHANGE, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC AND HEALTH IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE. 
          AND THIS IS, UM, A DEEPER DIVE. 
          IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO SEE. 
          UM, BUT I JUST, AND I'LL END THERE AND, UM, THERE ARE MORE DATA IF YOU'RE INTERESTED. 
          WE'RE WORKING ON A DASHBOARD RIGHT NOW. 
          UM, AND UH, THIS WORK IS CERTAINLY A WORK OF PASSION BY OUR TEAM , AND COULD NOT HAVE BEEN DONE WITHOUT OUR FEARLESS LEADER ALINA CRAFT. 
          YAY. 
          WOOHOO. 
          YES. 
          VERY GOOD. 
          THANK YOU DR. LEWIS. 
          I SEE A HAND ALREADY. 
          FIRST QUESTION. 
          UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH DR. LEWIS. 
          I WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT HOW YOU COMBINED ALL OF THE INDICATORS. 
          WERE THEY SEPARATELY OR WAS IT JUST SOME ERROR WAS A YES NO ANSWER, RIGHT? SO THE ANSWER IS NO, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ANY SCIENTIFIC JUSTIFICATION TO WEIGHT ONE MORE THAN THE OTHER. 
          AND SO EACH OF THEM WERE WEIGHTED EQUALLY WITHIN THEIR DOMAIN, AND THEN THEY WERE WEIGHTED EQUALLY ACROSS DOMAINS. 
          AND, UM, WE ACTUALLY TAKE THE DATA AND PUT IT INTO PERCENTILE DISTRIBUTIONS IN ORDER TO AGGREGATE THE DATA. 
          MM-HMM . 
          ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I HAD A COMMENT. 
          CAN I ASK MY QUESTION FIRST? DOCTOR ? YES. 
          YOU . 
          SO MY QUESTION IS RELATED TO STUDENTS, AS I SIT HERE LISTENING, ALL I COULD THINK ABOUT IS STUDENTS HAVING ACCESS TO THIS DATA AND BEING ABLE TO USE IT FOR THESIS AND DISSERTATION PROJECTS. 
          IS THAT SOMETHING THAT IS AVAILABLE? IT WILL ABSOLUTELY BE AVAILABLE. 
          EVERYTHING WILL BE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE. 
          WE, UH, THE PAPER ITSELF HAS GOT, UM, A LINK TO THE GITHUB WHERE ALL OF THE DATA SOURCES, UM, ARE THERE, UM, AS WELL AS A LIST OF WHERE WE DERIVED ALL THE DATA SOURCES. 
          SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE 
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COMPLETE TRANSPARENCY AND THEN THE DASHBOARD WILL ALLOW THEM TO HAVE AN EASIER WAY TO DOWNLOAD THAT DATA. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          WE ABSOLUTELY WANT THEM TO DO THAT. 
          . 
          DR. BULLOCK? YES. 
          I, I, VERY GOOD. 
          UH, THANK, THANKS A LOT. 
          UH, I WAS GONNA SAY IN TERMS OF WHEN, WHEN MY PRESENTATION EARLIER, IT MENTIONED TWO OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT UTAH, PLEASANTVILLE AND FIFTH WARD, THERE ARE SOME NEIGHBORHOODS, UM, THAT WILL COME UP ON THESE, UH, TOOLS, UM, OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN, WHICH GIVE THE COMMUNITIES THEMSELVES, THE ORGANIZATIONS THEMSELVES, UM, AMMUNITION, UH, DATA FACTS, WHETHER IT'S EJ SCREEN OR THE CLIMATE, UM, VULNERABILITY INDEX OR, OR THESE OTHER INDEXES, UH, TO TO SAY IT IS TIME FOR ACTION NOW BECAUSE WE HAVE ENOUGH DATA, ENOUGH INFORMATION TO MOVE TO ACTION RESEARCH TO ACTION. 
          SO WE TALK DATA TO ACTION. 
          IT'S THE ACTION PART. 
          SO WE, WE NEED TO GENERATE AS MANY MAPS, MANY CHARTS AND TABLES AND DATA WHICH, WHICH COMMUNITY CAN USE TO CARRY FORWARD, UM, UH, IN COLLABORATION WITH ITS ALLIES TO MAKE STRONGER ARGUMENTS. 
          SO THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO SAY. 
          AND WE CAN, I CAN SEE THE EJ SCREEN AND THE, THE, UH, CLIMATE VULNERABILITY INDEX DOVETAILING IN ADDITION TO THE C GS C GS SCREEN THAT CEQD WHITE HOUSE DID. 
          IN ADDITION TO OUR, UH, HCGS TOOL, WHICH INCLUDES RACE, THE GOVERNMENT LEFT RACE OUT, AND ANYTIME YOU LEAVE RACE OUT OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, YOU LEAVE THE COMMUNITY BEHIND. 
          BUT THAT'S ANOTHER QUESTION. 
          WE, WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO DO IT. 
          WE CAN DO IT OURSELVES WITH AND, AND HAVE OUR COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION LEADERS, UH, TRAINED UP ON THESE TOOLS SO THAT THEY CAN GENERATE AND CRANK OUT AND BE THE EXPERTS, UH, IN THOSE ROOMS WITH THEIR MAPS AND CARRY FORTH. 
          AND WHEN THEY NEED US TO STAND WITH THEM, WE STAND WITH THEM. 
          WE DON'T SPEAK FOR THEM, WE STAND WITH THEM. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YES. 
          AND SO, SO SPEAKING OF STANDING WITH THEM, I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE, UM, COCO'S BLOCK CAPTAINS WHO ARE HERE TODAY WITH US, AND THEY HAVE DONE JUST THAT THEY HAVE TAKEN DATA. 
          YOU'RE HERE, STAND UP. 
          STAND UP. 
          YES. 
          SO THEY HAVE DONE JUST THAT. 
          THEY'VE TAKEN DATA AND DEVELOPED, UH, PROJECTS THAT RESPOND SPECIFICALLY TO CONCERNS LIKE, UH, LEAD AND DRINKING WATER AND LEAD SERVICE INVENTORY. 
          UM, THEY'VE DONE WORK LOOKING AT AIR QUALITY. 
          SO RECENTLY THEY PUT UP, UH, THEIR OWN COMMUNITY AIR MONITORING NETWORK. 
          SO THEY'RE TAKING THIS KIND OF DATA AND DEVELOPING ACTION AND REALLY WORKING TO ADDRESS THEIR OWN CONCERNS. 
          SO I JUST WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEM. 
          REVEREND CALDWELL AND AND DANIELLA LEAD THAT ORGANIZATION. 
          WAIT, RAISE YOUR HANDS. 
          YEAH. 
          YES. 
          AND THIS WORK IS DONE IN THE FIFTH WARD COMMUNITY. 
          ALRIGHT, LAST BUT NOT LEAST IS MISS JEN. 
          SHE'S GONNA SHARE WITH US A WONDERFUL TOOL THAT AIR ALLIANCE HAS RECENTLY RELEASED, AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL LEARN TO USE IT AS WELL. 
          YES. 
          I COULDN'T HAVE ASKED FOR A BETTER INTRODUCTION BECAUSE THE TOOL I'M GONNA WHOA. 
           TALK TO Y ALL ABOUT IS, IS A TOOL FOR ACTION. 
          SO TO START, OUR ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN DEEPLY IN, I CANNOT SCOOT THAT, I'M GONNA HAVE TO SCOOCH THIS WAY AND WALK Y'ALL. 
          YEAH, YOU'RE GONNA KEEP, THAT'S WHY Y ALL, ALL THE WAY OVER HERE. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          I SHOULD PAY ATTENTION. 
          UM, OUR ORGANIZATION IS DEEPLY INDEBTED TO TOOLS LIKE EJ SCREEN AND THE CVI TO IDENTIFY ENVIRONMENTALLY VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES, DISENFRANCHISED COMMUNITIES, THAT WE CAN FOCUS OUR RESOURCES. 
          IT'S HOW WE CAN POP OUT AND SEE THE HOUSTON ARROW FOR EXAMPLE, OR HOW WE CAN IDENTIFY WHAT COMMUNITIES TO BUILD A COMMUNITY AIR MONITORING NETWORK IN WHICH WE PRESENTED ON EARLIER TODAY. 
          BUT AT OUR CORE, WE ARE AN ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION. 
          AND SO OUR GOAL ULTIMATELY IS TO SLOW OR STOP SOURCES OF POLLUTION. 
          WE WANT TO SLOW OR STOP A CONCRETE BATCH PLANT. 
          WE WANT TO SLOW OR STOP A REFINERY EXPANSION. 
          AND ONE OF THE LEVERS FOR THAT, SLOWING AND STOPPING IS THE PERMITTING PROCESS. 
          IF WE CAN SLOW OR STOP A NEW PERMIT, THEN WE CAN REDUCE ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES. 
          IF WE CAN ENSURE THAT A PERMIT HAS THE BETTER AVAILABLE POLLUTION CONTROL MEASURES BUILT INTO IT, THEN WE CAN REDUCE ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES. 
          HOWEVER, HAVING EASY, REAL TIME ACCESSIBLE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PERMITTING PROCESS, IT HAS BEEN DELIBERATELY 
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NOT TRANSPARENT. 
          AND THAT'S NOT JUST MY PERSONAL OPINION. 
          THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY HAS BEEN RECENTLY COMPELLED BY THE EPA TO REVISE AND REVAMP ITS PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PROCESS. 
          BUT UNTIL THAT TIME, IT IS EXTREME, HAS BEEN EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO KNOW WHEN A PERMIT APPLICATION HAS BEEN SUBMITTED, WHEN THE COMMENT PERIOD ENDS, WHEN THE PUBLIC MEETING IS HELD, WHO TO CONTACT TO REQUEST THAT PUBLIC MEETING. 
          IT'S BEEN AN INCREDIBLY HEAVY MANUAL LIFT TO KNOW WHEN THAT HAPPENS. 
          AND AS AN ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION TO MAKE THE COMMUNITIES WE WORK IN AS IDENTIFIED BY EJ SCREEN AND CVI AWARE THAT THEY CAN ACTIVATE THEIR VOICE. 
          THEY CAN COME TO THE TABLE, LOOK IN THE EYES OF A FACILITY, LOOK IN THE EYES OF TCEQ AND DEMAND SOMETHING BETTER. 
          THAT'S WHY WE DEVELOPED AIR MAIL. 
          SO THIS IS WHAT AIR MAIL DOES. 
          AIR MAIL IS A REAL TIME AUTOMATIC SCRUBBING TOOL THAT GOES INTO TCE Q'S PERMITTING DATABASES AND PULLS AIR PERMITS, WATER PERMITS, AND MUNICIPAL WASTE PERMITS, AND PUTS THEM AT FINGERTIPS AND ALL OF THE INFORMATION CONNECTED TO THEIR ACTION AT FINGERTIPS. 
          SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO SEARCHING AND FOLLOW UP ON WHEN THOSE PERMIT APPLICATIONS ARE SUBMITTED. 
          IT'S ALL THERE IN ONE PLACE, PUBLICLY AVAILABLE, REAL TIME. 
          AND IT DIRECTS YOU TO HOW YOU CAN TAKE ACTION ON THOSE PERMITS. 
          AND SO TODAY WE'RE GONNA DO A LIVE DEMO. 
          AND SO STEPHANIE COATES GAVE ME THIS IDEA AND SHE LEFT. 
          SO WHEN Y'ALL SEE HER, TELL HER I GAVE HER CREDIT FOR GIVING ME THIS IDEA TODAY, , BECAUSE I PROMISED HER I WOULD. 
          SO HERE'S WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO. 
          EVERYBODY TAKE OUT YOUR CELL PHONE AND I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU THE ADDRESS FOR AIR MAIL AND I'M GONNA WALK YOU THROUGH IT PUBLICLY AVAILABLE, ALL OF THE PERMITTING INFORMATION RIGHT AT YOUR FINGERTIPS. 
          SO HERE IS THE ADDRESS, IT'S A A H, WHICH STANDS FOR ALLIANCE HOUSTON. 
          LOOK, THERE IT IS. 
          WE'RE CAN YOU, CAN YOU SHOW THE, CAN YOU SHOW THE ADDRESS AT THE TOP? OH, YOU CAN BARELY. 
          OKAY, LET ME JUST SAY IT FOR YOU. 
          A A H DASH AIR MAIL.ORG. 
          THAT'S THE WEBSITE. 
          THIS IS GONNA HAVE TO BE A LITTLE INTERACTIVE 'CAUSE I CAN'T SEE, SEE WHAT YOU SEE ON YOUR CELL PHONES. 
          SO SOMEBODY TELL ME WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU'RE AT THE AIRMAIL SITE, THE FIRST THING YOU'RE GONNA PERFECT. 
          WAS THAT A YES? OKAY. 
          THE FIRST THING YOU'RE GONNA SEE IS A DISCLAIMER. 
          JUST CLOSE THE DISCLAIMER THAT JUST TELLS YOU, THIS IS A DISCLAIMER. 
          IT'S OUR BEST ACCESSIBLE INFORMATION. 
          SOME THINGS COULD BE WRONG. 
          IT'S OUR BEST ESTIMATE. 
          Y'ALL KNOW ALL THAT. 
          SO CLOSE THE DISCLAIMER. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          NOW YOU SHOULD SEE A MAP. 
          DO FOLKS SEE A MAP? YES, YES, YES. 
          OKAY. 
          SO YOU CAN KIND OF ZOOM IN OR ZOOM OUT ON THE MAP. 
          AND WHAT YOU'LL SEE ON THE MAP IS A WHOLE BUNCH OF BLUE AND GRAY DOTS. 
          THOSE OKAY? THAT, THAT'S WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN YOU ZOOM OUT ON THOSE BLUE AND GRAY DOTS. 
          YOU'RE GONNA SEE A VERY FAMILIAR PATTERN. 
          YOU'RE GONNA SEE THE PATTERNS THAT WE SEE IN EJ EJ SCREEN, THE PATTERNS WE SEE IN THE CVI, THE PATTERNS WE SEE IN THE HOUSTON ARROW, BECAUSE THESE ARE SOURCES OF POLLUTION. 
          AND YOU'LL SEE WHERE THEY ARE LOCATED THROUGHOUT, NOT JUST HOUSTON HARRIS COUNTY. 
          THIS IS A STATEWIDE TOOL. 
          BLUE DOTS INDICATE AN ACTIVE PERMIT. 
          GRAY DOTS INDICATE AN INACTIVE PERMIT. 
          ALRIGHT, SO, UH OH. 
          MAKE SURE I DON'T SLIP ON THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THIS IS A TOOL THAT WORKS FOR ALL 254 COUNTIES OF TEXAS. 
          IT'S GOT A DEFAULT TO HARRIS COUNTY JUST BECAUSE THAT'S THE COUNTY WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW. 
          BUT WHAT YOU CAN DO IS CHANGE THAT COUNTY. 
          OH YAY. 
          IN THE BACK. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO THIS DROPDOWN CHANGES ALL THE COUNTIES. 
          YOU CAN GO TO ANY COUNTY IN THE STATE OF TEXAS AND SEE THE SAME THING. 
          IF YOU ZOOM BACK OUT FROM THAT COUNTY, YOU CAN SORT BY FIL, YOU CAN SORT BY THE TYPE OF POLLUTION SOURCE, YOU CAN SORT BY THE TYPE OF PERMIT, YOU CAN SORT BY A TIMEFRAME AND YOU CAN SORT BY A SPECIFIC FACILITY. 
          SO IF YOU'LL CLICK THAT LITTLE MAGNIFYING GLASS, I'M GONNA GIVE YOU A FACILITY TO SEARCH BY. 
          AND SO TYPE IN THE WORDS DEER PARK ON YOUR PHONE AND ON HERE. 
          AND SO TELL ME WHAT COMES UP. 
          IF PEOPLE SEE IT WHEN THEY TYPE IN DEER PARK. 
          THIS IS GREAT. 
          THANK Y'ALL ON THE BACK. 
          I DON'T KNOW WHO'S DOING THAT BACK THERE, BUT THANK YOU. 
          TYPE IN DEER PARK. 
          DEE TWO E. 
          OKAY. 
          THIS ONE. 
          ANYBODY RECOGNI RECOGNIZE THIS ONE? YES. 
          YEP. 
          DR. 
          KRAFT HAD IT IN HER PRESENTATION EARLIER. 
          THIS IS THE ITC DEER PARK FACILITY. 
          IT'S A PETROCHEMICAL TANK FARM. 
          IT'S THE SITE OF ONE OF OUR GREATEST DISASTERS, ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS IN THE HOUSTON HARRIS CARRYING AREA. 
          IN 2019, WHEN THIS TANK FARM CAUGHT ITSELF ON FIRE, BURNED FOR TWO WEEKS, AND NOW THEY'RE IN THE PROCESS OF RENEWING THEIR AIR PERMIT APPLICATION 
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FACILITY CAN CATCH ITSELF ON FIRE AND STILL GET RENEWED FOR ITS PERMIT. 
          OKAY? NOW WHAT HAPPENS IN AIR MAIL IS YOU FOUND YOUR PERMIT. 
          EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS PERMIT IS RIGHT HERE. 
          SO IF YOU COULD SCROLL BACK UP FOR ME. 
          HERE'S, HERE'S THE NOTICE IF YOU, YOU DON'T HAVE TO CLICK THIS IF YOU WANTED TO, IT MIGHT TAKE MORE TIME. 
          YOU CAN CLICK THAT AND GET THE OFFICIAL NOTICE FROM TCEQ. 
          YOU CAN CLICK THESE AND GET INFORMATION ABOUT THE FACILITY AND ITS VIOLATION HISTORY. 
          SCROLL DOWN FOR ME. 
          NOW. 
          YOU CAN SLIDE THIS UP AND DOWN AND FIND OUT HOW MANY RESIDENTS ARE LIVING AT FENCELINE AND FRONTLINE TO THIS FACILITY. 
          YOU CAN GO DOWN TO SEE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND GET ACCESS TO THAT IMMEDIATELY. 
          IF YOU KEEP SCROLLING DOWN, YOU CAN EVEN GET CONNECTED TO INFORMATION AT OUR WEBSITE TO GIVE YOU INFORMATION ABOUT WHY THIS FACILITY IS CONCERNING FOR PUBLIC HEALTH. 
          AND YOU CAN FIND OUT WHO YOUR STATE LEGISLATORS ARE IN THIS DISTRICT, BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ONES WHO CAN REQUEST A PUBLIC MEETING. 
          NOW HERE'S THE BEST PART, HAHA. 
          ON YOUR PHONES, YOU CAN CLICK THIS RIGHT HERE, SUBMIT PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          AND THAT WILL TAKE YOU DIRECTLY TO THE SITE WHERE YOU CAN SAY TO TCEQ, YOUR CONCERNS ABOUT THIS FACILITY PERMIT, WHY YOU WANT THEM TO HAVE BETTER POLLUTION CONTROL STANDARDS. 
          WHY YOU WANT THEM TO DENY THIS PERMIT. 
          AND NOW YOUR VOICE IS HEARD. 
          BECAUSE THE UNDERLYING PHILOSOPHY BEHIND AIR MAIL IS THAT EVERY ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR COMMUNITY VOICE. 
          MM-HMM. 
          AND THE COMMUNITY THAT IS DIRECTLY IMPACTED AND HARMED BY POLLUTERS ARE THE VOICES THAT NEED TO BE HEARD. 
          AND THIS SYSTEM MAKES THAT REAL TIME MAKES THAT ALMOST AUTOMATIC. 
          NOW, THERE'S A COUPLE REALLY COOL ADDITIONAL THINGS ABOUT AIR MAIL THAT WE, AS THE, THE ARCHITECT BEHIND IT ALSO HAVE ACCESS TO, BUT OTHER PARTNERS COULD TOO, OTHER ORGANIZATIONS COULD TOO. 
          WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO AUTOMATICALLY NOTIFY THAT SLIDER OF PEOPLE UP TO THREE MILES WITH A POSTCARD, OLD FASHIONED, PLAIN OLD FASHIONED IN THE MAIL POSTCARD WITH THE SAME INFORMATION. 
          AND WE HAVE DONE THAT SINCE LAST SUMMER. 
          WE'VE SENT OUT ABOUT 50,000 POSTCARDS SO THAT YOU GET SOMETHING IN THE MAIL THAT SAYS, LOOK, THIS FACILITY IS COMING INTO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, OR THIS FACILITY IS EXPANDING. 
          ITS, UH, PERMIT TO PER TO POLLUTE MORE. 
          AND MAKING PEOPLE AWARE OF THAT NOTIFICATION HAS BEEN ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL PIECES OF AIR MAIL. 
          THE OTHER PIECE OF AIR MAIL THAT WE ALSO GET, AND WE'RE ABOUT TO MAKE THIS FUNCTIONALITY PUBLIC. 
          SO CHECK BACK, BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE CHECK BACK. 
          AND THEN YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SIGN UP FOR THIS TOO. 
          YOU CAN, WE CURRENTLY GET NOW A WEEKLY EMAIL FROM AIR MAIL AUTOMATIC THAT SUMMARIZES EVERY NEW PERMIT APPLICATION, AIR, WATER, MUNICIPAL WASTE. 
          EVERY WEEK COMES IN MONDAY MORNING AT 6:00 AM WE'RE ABOUT TO MAKE THAT FUNCTIONALITY PUBLIC AS WELL. 
          SO YOU, IF YOU WANT TO TRACK THESE PERMIT OPPORTUNITIES, CAN GET THAT EMAIL EVERY MONDAY AND KNOW THESE ARE ALL OF THE NEW PERMITS THAT HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED. 
          THAT EMAIL ALONE WILL ALSO TAKE YOU DIRECTLY TO THE INFORMATION. 
          SO IF YOU, IF IF, IF THE ITC DEER PARK FEDERAL OPERATING PERMIT HAD POPPED UP ON THAT MONDAY EMAIL, YOU COULD HAVE CLICKED THE BUTTON ON THE EMAIL AND IT WOULD TAKE YOU STRAIGHT TO ALL THIS INFORMATION. 
          YOU COULD DO ALL THESE SAME THINGS, SUBMIT YOUR PO YOUR PUBLIC COMMENT, MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD. 
          THAT'S THE POWER OF AIR MAIL. 
          AND SO IT IS A TOOL BASED IN THE RECOGNITION OF THE SOURCES OF AN, OF POLLUTION THAT HAVE CREATED THE VULNERABILITIES, THE ENVIRONMENTAL HARMS, AND CONNECTS TO AN ACTION THAT EVERYBODY IN THIS ROOM CAN TAKE. 
          YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIVE IN THAT COMMUNITY TO SUBMIT PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          WE KNOW THAT AIR POLLUTION DOESN'T KNOW NECESSARILY A CITY BOUNDARY, A COUNTY BOUNDARY OR NEIGHBORHOOD BOUNDARY. 
          YOU CAN SUBMIT THAT PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ANY OF THESE PERMITS TO SAY, DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN WITH EVERY TOOL. 
          YOU HAVE TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITIES FROM POLLUTION. 
          AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO WITH THIS TOOL. 
          THAT'S IT. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          THANK YOU STEPHANIE. 
          WHO IS NOT IN THE ROOM WHEN I DID HER DEMO,  , I'LL LET HER KNOW. 
          I CAME TO HER YESTERDAY. 
          I SAID, I HAVE A DILEMMA. 
          HOW AM I GONNA SHOW AIR MAIL? I DIDN'T KNOW IT COULD BE LIVE LIKE THIS. 
          SHE SAID, HERE'S PHONES. 
          VERY GOOD. 
          GREAT SUGGESTION. 
          GREAT SUGGESTION. 
          SO HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE EVER SUBMITTED A PUBLIC COMMENT THERE? SO THIS TOOL MAKES IT EASY FOR US TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THAT. 
          AND ALL OF US SHOULD BE SUBMITTING PUBLIC COMMENTS. 
          HOW MANY OF US HAVE EVER RECEIVED THE BIG STACK OF MAIL? SO ONCE YOU EVER  SUBMIT A PUBLIC COMMENT, THEN YOU START TO GET THIS, OR I GUESS YOU COULD REQUEST IT THOUGH, BUT YOU GET THIS, UH, WE USED TO GET ALL OF THIS MAIL FOR EVERY PERMIT THAT WAS REQUESTED IF IT WAS RELATED TO AIR, WATER, OR SOIL. 
          AND SO HOW MANY OF YOU EVER RECEIVED ALL THOSE LETTERS THAT YES. 
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DON'T NEED TO? NOW THEY'RE COMING BY E BY EMAIL. 
          YES. 
          NOW THEY'RE COMING BY EMAIL. 
          BUT WE USED TO GET STACKS OF LETTERS MM-HMM . 
          TO INFORM US THAT THESE PERMITS WERE REQUESTED. 
          SO THE AIR MAIL MM-HMM . 
          TOOL IS AMAZING IN REDUCING ONE. 
          THIS IS THE OTHER PROBLEM. 
          THEY WERE NOT NECESSARILY BY ZIP CODE OR, YOU KNOW, IT DIDN'T NECESSARILY FIGURE OUT IF IT WAS CLOSE TO YOUR ADDRESS. 
          IT WAS BY COUNTING. 
          AND SO CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW MANY LETTERS YOU WOULD GET? SO THE AIR MAIL TOOL PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY TO REDUCE EVEN THE, THE NUMBER OF EMAILS THAT YOU GET BECAUSE IT'S VERY SPECIFIC TO THE AREA THAT YOU'RE INTERESTED IN. 
          SO I ENCOURAGE YOU TO SUBMIT PUBLIC COMMENTS. 
          I ENCOURAGE YOU TO VISIT ALL OF THESE TOOLS. 
          MY FIRST QUESTION FOR ALL OF YOU IS, UM, IF I AM A RESIDENT, WHAT, WHAT OPPORTUNITIES ARE THERE FOR ME TO MAKE SUGGESTIONS OR, UM, GIVE YOU IDEAS ABOUT ADDITIONAL INDICATORS OR MEASURES THAT I'D LIKE TO SEE IN YOUR TOOLS? DO I HAVE TO AIR FIRST? YEAH, I GUESS SO. 
          , UM, AM I STILL ON? UM, YEAH. 
          SO WE ARE CONSTANTLY, I MEAN, EVERYTHING IN EJ SCREEN HAS REALLY BEEN DRIVEN BY THE USERS SINCE WE RELEASED IT PUBLICLY. 
          UH, WE, WE'VE MADE A PRETTY GOOD PROGRESS ON IT OVER THE LAST 18 MONTHS. 
          BUT WE HAD A PUNCH OUT LIST OF PROBABLY 60 OR 70 THINGS A COUPLE YEARS AGO THAT WE'D JUST BEEN GENERATING YEAR OVER YEAR. 
          BECAUSE WE USED TO SPEND, WE USED TO ONLY HAVE ABOUT $150,000 A YEAR TO ACTUALLY DO ANY ENHANCEMENTS TO THE TOOL. 
          AND THAT ONLY, THAT COULD ONLY DO LIKE FOUR OR FIVE THINGS A YEAR, RIGHT? SO WITH, WITH A LOT OF THE FUNDING WE HAVE NOW, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO REALLY KNOCK OUT A LOT OF THOSE THINGS. 
          BUT WE ARE CONSTANTLY RECEIVING FEEDBACK FROM USERS. 
          AND THERE'S, ON THE EJ SCREEN WEBSITE, THERE'S A PROMINENT, UM, BOTH A HELP DESK IN CASE A USER NEEDS HELP. 
          WE HAVE, UM, A CONCIERGE, UH, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE SERVICE THAT IS READY TO RESPOND TO ANY NEEDS OF A USER. 
          BUT THEN WE ALSO, THROUGH THAT, AND ALSO THROUGH JUST A, A A, AN EMAIL THAT WE HAVE THERE, UH, ANY FEEDBACK WE GET, UM, GOES UP ON THE LIST OF THINGS THAT WE LOOK FOR AS WELL AS JUST CONSTANTLY DOING, YOU KNOW, THESE SORTS OF ENGAGEMENTS, THESE SORTS OF TRAININGS WITH FOLKS. 
          UH, I DON'T DO THEM VERY OFTEN ANYMORE. 
          'CAUSE NOW WE HAVE A TEAM THAT'LL, THAT IS A GROWING TEAM RIGHT NOW THAT IS GONNA BE DOING MORE AND MORE OF THESE TRAININGS. 
          BUT THIS SORT OF FEEDBACK IN TERMS OF CONSTANTLY EDUCATING FOLKS ABOUT IT, HEARING THEIR QUESTIONS, HEARING FOLKS SAY, WELL, WHY, YOU KNOW, CAN I LOOK AT THIS? AND WE'RE LIKE, OH NO, YOU CAN'T DO THAT. 
          , THAT'S A PROBLEM. 
          UM, IS IS ONE OF THE WAYS THAT WE'VE CONSTANTLY EVOLVED THE TOOL OVER TIME AND IT'LL CONTINUE TO, TO, UM, DO THAT EVOLUTION. 
          WE'RE ACTUALLY GETTING TO A POINT RIGHT NOW, LIKE LOOKING AT YOUR LIST OF ALL THOSE THINGS, WHICH ARE AWESOME. 
          UM, WE'RE ACTUALLY GETTING TO A POINT RIGHT NOW AT EJ SCREEN WHERE IT'S GONNA, IT'S, IT'S KIND OF GETTING TOO BIG. 
          IT'S, IT'S GONNA COLLAPSE UNDER ITS OWN WEIGHT BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S GETTING SO MUCH STUFF IN IT FOR JUST A REGULAR PERSON TO INTERACT WITH. 
          SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE LOOKING TO DO, IN ADDITION TO TRYING TO FIGURE OUT AN ELEGANT WAY TO GET CLOSER TO A CUMULATIVE SCORE, IS TO ACTUALLY COME UP WITH MORE OF LIKE A TURBOTAX VERSION OF IT , RIGHT? LIKE A HERE'S HERE'S A SIMPLIFIED VERSION FOR MOST OF US USERS THAT ARE LIKE BLOWN AWAY WHEN WE HAVE TOO MANY OPTIONS TO JUST GET PEOPLE THE ANSWERS THAT THEY WANT A LITTLE MORE QUICK, QUICKLY, AND CLEANLY. 
          AND THEN HAVE LIKE THE EXPERT VERSION WHERE WE'LL HAVE, YOU KNOW, WE'LL EVERY TIME A TOOL COMES OUT, WE'VE BEEN TALKING TO THE CVI TEAM FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. 
          LIKE EVERY TIME A TOOL COMES OUT, WE STUDY IT AND WE'RE LIKE, OOH, THEY GOT THAT. 
          THEY GOT THAT. 
          WHY DON'T WE HAVE THAT? AND WE ARE CONSTANTLY PULLING THAT STUFF IN. 
          UM, AND THERE'S REALLY KIND OF, I THINK A GROWING COMMUNITY OF, OF PEOPLE CREATING THESE TOOLS THAT ARE CONSTANTLY TALKING TO ONE ANOTHER, LOOKING AT ONE ANOTHER'S STUFF. 
          UM, KIND OF, I THINK I HOPE POSITIVELY FRIENDLY COMPETING WITH ONE ANOTHER IN TERMS OF HOW WE DEVELOP AND, UM, UH, BECAUSE ALL OF THESE TOOLS REALLY SHOULD BE EXISTING TOGETHER, UH, AND HELPING ONE ANOTHER ADVANCE. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          AND WELL SAID. 
          I AGREE WITH THAT. 
          AND I THINK THAT WE HAVE BENEFITED FROM YOU GUYS, UM, GIVING US YOUR FEEDBACK AS WE'RE DEVELOPING THIS AS WELL AS, UM, TSU AND, UM, ALL OF OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS. 
          AND I THINK OUR TOOL WOULD NOT BE WHAT IT IS WITHOUT THE INPUT OF OUR COMMUNITY GROUPS AND THEIR RESIDENTS. 
          AND THAT TO ME IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING OF ANY TOOL THAT IS OUT THERE, IS THAT YOU HAVE TO TRY TO INCORPORATE WHAT THEIR DESIRES ARE. 
          IT SHOULDN'T JUST BE THIS TOP DOWN APPROACH. 
          AND SO I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE WITH THAT. 
          UM, I DIDN'T HAVE MY NAME ON THERE, UH, MY LAST SLIDE, BUT IT, MY EMAIL IS GLEW S@EDF.ORG. 
          SO GLEWIS@EDF.ORG, YOU CAN EMAIL ME AND CERTAINLY WHEN OUR DASHBOARD IS READY, THERE'S GOING TO BE A WAY FOR US TO HAVE, UM, OPPORTUNITY TO CONTACT US AND TO GET THAT FEEDBACK. 
          UM, WE LOOKED AT MORE THAN 200 INDICATORS, 
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UM, JUST BUT IN ASSESSING THE TOOL, MAKING SURE THERE WASN'T OVERLAP OR THAT THE DATA WAS, UM, HAD ENOUGH SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY TO BE USED ON A NATIONAL SCALE, WE LOST SOME THINGS THAT WE REALLY WOULD'VE LIKED TO INCLUDE. 
          UH, A LOT OF TRIBAL DATA, FOR INSTANCE, THAT IS LIKE A BIG HOLE. 
          UM, I THINK THAT REALLY NEEDS FORTIFICATION. 
          UM, AND SO THERE IS A LOT OF DESIRE FOR OTHER INDICATORS THAT REALLY JUST ISN'T BEING MET A LOT OF MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH DATA, UM, REALLY SHOCKINGLY POOR, UM, QUALITY BECAUSE THERE'S NOT CONSISTENT REPORTING REQUIREMENTS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES. 
          AND SO THAT, IN MY OPINION, MAKES COMMUNITIES MORE VULNERABLE WHEN WE DON'T HAVE THAT, UM, REQUIREMENT BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO REQUIRE THOSE INDICATORS OF METRICS OF, UM, OF HEALTH FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE IN OUR COMMUNITIES IS NOT BEING MET. 
          SO, UM, I THINK THAT THERE ARE, UM, WATER DATA IS SOMETHING THAT, UM, MATT BROUGHT UP THAT IS A HUGE, HUGE STRUGGLE. 
          WE STRUGGLED WITH THAT INCREDIBLY TO GET THAT DATA AND PUT IT TOGETHER. 
          IT EXISTS IN PIECES BUT NOT PUT TOGETHER. 
          SO, UM, I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS, UM, THAT ON A NATIONAL SCALE, UM, WE'RE PUTTING TOGETHER, UM, A DECISION SUPPORT TOOL OFF OF THIS CVI, UM, FOR PLANNERS AND DECISION MAKERS THAT WILL HAVE MORE LOCAL DATA. 
          AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE PLAN TO BE ABLE TO DO WITH OUR TOOL THAT I THINK EJ SCREEN HAS BEGUN TO DO IS FOR YOU TO BE ABLE TO LAYER YOUR DATA ON TOP OF OUR TOOLS DATA. 
          AND SO I THINK THAT ALLOWS PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO TAKE THEIR LOCALIZED DATA AND REALLY OVERLAY IT TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THAT WILL EXIST. 
          SO, UM, JUST AS DR. 
          TEJADA SAID, YOU KNOW, WE WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO LIKE UPDATE THIS WITH THE LATEST AND GREATEST, BUT IT TAKES A LOT OF WORK AND A LOT OF MONEY. 
          AND SO WE CAN'T DO IT LIKE JUST EVERY SIX MONTHS OR SO. 
          SO IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU GIVE US YOUR FEEDBACK AND WE KNOW WHAT IS WANTED IN THE TOOL SO THAT WE CAN MAKE IT MORE ROBUST FOR EVERYBODY. 
          YEAH. 
          SO WE WORK WITH, OH, GO AHEAD. 
          NO, SORRY. 
          NO, YOU GO . 
          I'LL BE CLEAR. 
          WE WORK WITH AN INCREDIBLE CONSULTING FIRM, LOCAL CONSULTING FIRM CALLED JANUARY ADVISORS TO BUILD AND, UH, EXPAND AIR MAIL. 
          AND THEY LOVE HOLDING SOMETHING CALLED A USER EXPERIENCE SESSION, WHICH I JUST CALL A TRAINING. 
          AND SO WE HAVE A SERIES OF TRAININGS SCHEDULED THROUGHOUT THE, THAT ARE GOING TO BE COMING THROUGH THE REST OF THE YEAR TO NOT ONLY ENCOURAGE USE OF AIR MAIL ALONG THE GULF COAST. 
          SO OUR HOPE IS TO BRING TRAINING TO SOME OF THE COUNTIES OUTSIDE OF HARRIS COUNTY, NOES COUNTY, JEFFERSON COUNTY IN PARTICULAR. 
          AND IN THOSE SESSIONS, THERE WILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO ALSO PROVIDE INPUT ON HIGH AIR MAIL CAN BE BETTER. 
          AND THE TRAININGS WE'VE USED BEFORE, THAT WE'VE CONDUCTED BEFORE, AND THOSE USER EXPERIENCE SESSIONS HAVE DRIVEN THE IMPROVEMENTS WE'RE MAKING NOW. 
          SO THE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE WEEKLY EMAIL NOTIFICATION, FOR EXAMPLE, WE'RE CREATING, UH, SOME TOOLS WITHIN AIR MAIL. 
          SOCIAL MEDIA FOLKS WILL LOVE THIS, WHERE YOU CAN JUST PRESS A BUTTON AND IT'LL GO IN A SOCIAL MEDIA FRIENDLY FORMAT ON YOUR TWITTER AND FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM, PROBABLY NOT TIKTOK, BUT YOU COULD POST INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PERMIT IMMEDIATELY TO SHARE AND AMPLIFY THE IMPORTANCE OF IT. 
          SO THOSE ARE JUST A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES. 
          THERE'S MORE COMING. 
          UH, THE BUILD OUT TO THE FULL 254 COUNTIES IN THE STATE WAS A NEWER EDITION THAT WAS COMPLETED LATE LAST YEAR. 
          I PROMISE. 
          I KNOW DANIELLA'S BEEN WANTING TO GET AIR MAIL. 
          COCO'S GONNA KNOW ABOUT THOSE TRAININGS WHEN THEY HAPPEN LOCALLY. 
          SO I ENCOURAGE YOU TO COME TO THAT. 
          GIVE US YOUR USER EXPERIENCE FEEDBACK. 
          WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR WAYS TO IMPROVE THAT TOOL, NOT ONLY IN HOW IT FUNCTIONS ON THE SITE, BUT HOW THE INFORMATION CAN BE USED. 
          SO, UH, COMBINATION FOR EXAMPLE, OF HOW WE ADDED COUNTIES, BUT THEN WE ALSO WANT IT TO BE SOMETHING YOU CAN POST TO SOCIAL MEDIA. 
          SO ON BOTH ELEMENTS, WE'RE LOOKING FOR FEEDBACK. 
          YEAH. 
          JUST TO FOLLOW UP TO TRAINING, UH, WHAT WE FOUND AT THE BOOTH CENTER WITH OUR, UH, COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATION, UH, HUBS, IS WHEN WE DO TRAINING, UH, A LOT OF TIMES THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR IS THERE. 
          UH, AND WHAT WE'VE UH, TRIED TO, UH, INSTILL IS THAT, UH, THE PLUS ONE AND THE PLUS ONE, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PLUS ONE, THE PLUS ONE, UH, WE ENCOURAGING THAT PERSON, UH, THE, THE ORGANIZATIONS TO REACH OUT TO YOUNG PEOPLE, NOT TO BE, UM, DISCRIMINATORY, BUT TO REACH OUT TO YOUNG PEOPLE WHO CAN, YOU CAN BRING IN TO ASSIST WITH DOING THE TRAINING, BUT ALSO WITH THE, THE MANIPULATION OF THE TOOL, THE ADDING OF THE DATA MANIPULATION, DATA MANAGEMENT, ET CETERA. 
          AND WHICH WILL, 
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IN WHICH WILL INCREASE THE, UH, INTERGENERATIONAL, UH, WORK AND PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE TO, UH, BE INVOLVED IN, IN THIS WORK. 
          AND WE FOUND IT TO BE VERY USEFUL. 
          UM, AND IT'S, IT WORKS AND, UH, AND THESE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE VERY GOOD WITH THIS STUFF. 
          , . 
          TRUE. 
          OKAY. 
          FIRST QUESTION. 
          HI, MY NAME IS JOSH SAID THAT THE, THE POINT OF AIRLINES USED STOP OR SLOW MM-HMM . 
          EXPAND, HAVE AN ASSESSMENT ABOUT THESE, OR IS IT, IS SOMEBODY, YES, YOU WANNA THIS OR MM-HMM . 
          THIS IS ACTUALLY A GOOD THING BECAUSE IT'S A LOT OF RIGHT NOW MM-HMM. 
          TO QUALITY OF CARE FIRST PLACE. 
          SO WANTING TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING IS IN ALL MUCH TOGETHER AND FOR ACCESS TO COLLEGE. 
          SURE. 
          SO I THINK IT'S A TWO PART QUESTION. 
          ONE IS, DOES AIR MAIL TRACK ITS IMPACT? AND THE SECOND IS, DOES IT DISTINGUISH BETWEEN D DIFFERENT TYPES OF PERMITS AND FACILITIES? SO THE SECOND QUESTION'S EASIER TO ANSWER, AND THAT ANSWER IS YES. 
          SO WHEN YOU, WHEN WE WERE SHOWING YOU THE ITC DEER PARK PERMIT, THERE WERE PLACES TO CONNECT TO THEIR PUBLIC INFORMATION TO GET ACCESS TO THE TYPE OF PERMIT BEING REQUESTED, GET ACCESS TO THEIR FACILITIES. 
          IS IT A PERMIT FOR A WHOLE FACILITY LIKE FEDERAL OPERATING? IS IT A PERMIT FOR A PIECE OF A FACILITY? SO IT WILL DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THOSE THINGS AND GOOD, BAD, OR INDIFFERENT. 
          AIR MAIL DOESN'T TELL YOU WHAT YOUR COMMENT SHOULD BE, IT JUST GIVES YOU INFORMATION TO SUBMIT YOUR COMMENT. 
          SO CERTAINLY IF SOMEBODY FELT THAT A PERMIT FOR A TECHNOLOGY WAS BENEFICIAL, THEY COULD SUBMIT THAT COMMENT AS EASILY AS THEY COULD SUBMITTING A COMMENT THAT SAYS THE TECHNOLOGY IS NOT BENEFICIAL. 
          SO THIS FIRST QUESTION THAT IS A GREAT QUESTION. 
          I'M GLAD YOU ASKED BECAUSE ONE OF THE IMPROVEMENTS WE'RE MAKING TO AIR MAIL, I FORGOT TO MENTION, UH, THAT IS COMING. 
          SO CHECK BACK IS WHEN YOU LOOK AT A FACILITY AND YOU, AND YOU SEE ALL OF THE ACCESS TO INFORMATION THAT IT'S PULLING FOR YOU, IT WILL SOON ALSO PULL IN THE TOTAL NUMBER OF COMMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED, VERBAL AND WRITTEN. 
          SO YOU CAN TRACK WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU WERE TO SUBMIT YOUR OWN. 
          AND AS WE NOTIFY COMMUNITY, DO WE SEE CORRELATION BETWEEN NOTIFICATION AND ACTION TAKEN BY COMMUNITY MEMBERS? WE ARE TRACKING THAT MANUALLY. 
          RIGHT NOW, IT IS A SPREADSHEET, WE HAVEN'T AUTOMATED IT, BUT AIRMAIL WILL, WILL EVENTUALLY GET TO A POINT WHERE IT'LL AUTOMATE ALL THE COMMENTS. 
          NUMBER ONE, IS THERE A PUBLIC MEETING ISSUE? BECAUSE THAT'S A, THAT'S A POINT OF IMPACT. 
          HOW MANY COMMENTS ARE SUBMITTED? AND THAT'S A POINT OF IMPACT. 
          WE'RE TRACKING THAT OURSELVES AND WE ARE SEEING AN INCREASE. 
          THERE'S, YOU KNOW, WE HAVEN'T RUN IT THROUGH A, THROUGH STATA OR SAAS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. 
          BUT WE ARE SEEING OURSELVES, UH, ANECDOTALLY OVER TIME THAT WHEN WE SEND OUT NOTIFICATION POSTCARDS, WE DO SEE MORE COMMENTS COME IN, WE GET MORE PHONE CALLS, AND THEN WE CAN RESPOND AND HELP PEOPLE WRITE, COMMENT, OR PREPARE TO GIVE COMMENT. 
          AND WHEN WE NOTIFY ON PUBLIC MEETINGS, WE ARE SEEING MORE PEOPLE ATTEND THOSE PUBLIC MEETINGS. 
          SO WE'RE SEEING THAT WE NEED TO FIND A WAY TO ANALYZE THAT A LITTLE MORE STATISTICALLY ROBUSTLY. 
          BUT AS A PUBLIC FACING TOOL, AIR MAIL WILL SOON PULL THAT INFORMATION SO YOU CAN SEE THOSE OUTCOMES AS WELL, VERY EASILY. 
          INSTEAD OF HAVING TO GO INTO THE COMMISSIONER'S INTEGRATED DATABASE, FIND THE, FIND THE FACILITY, FIND THE PERMIT, ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE THE HEAVY LIFT RIGHT NOW, EVENTUALLY GET DOWN, KNOW WHICH BUTTONS TO CLICK TO EVEN SEE THE COMMENTS AND THEN SEE WHAT COMMENTS ARE GIVEN AND READ THEM. 
          YOU'LL BE ABLE TO GO STRAIGHT THROUGH AIR MAIL AND GET THERE DIRECTLY. 
          YEAH, THERE'S ANOTHER POINT TRYING TO CONNECT THESE, UH, THREE TOOLS. 
          UM, EJ FOR EXAMPLE, THERE'S A PERMIT THAT'S UP FOR MM-HMM . 
          X FACILITY, EJS SCREEN. 
          YOU CAN TAKE THIS FACILITY ADDRESS, PUT IT IN, UM, EJS SCREEN AND PULL UP WHAT'S ALL THERE IN TERMS OF MM-HMM . 
          HOW MANY FACILITIES ON TRI, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. 
          AND YOU CAN TAKE THE, THE CLIMATE VULNERABILITY INDEX MM-HMM . 
          AND DO THE SIMILAR THING IN TERMS OF WHAT'S GOING ON, SO THAT THE PERSON THAT'S MAKING THE COMMENTS CAN PUT IT TOGETHER YEP. 
          AND COME UP WITH SOME RATIONAL, UM, COMMENTS AS TO WHETHER THEY ARE, UH, JUST GUNG-HO ABOUT MM-HMM . 
          THIS, WHATEVER, OR THEY'RE VEHEMENTLY OPPOSED BASED ON X, Y, AND Z AND BASED THEIR COMMENTS ON DATA ON BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. 
          SO I SEE, YOU KNOW, IT'S A, WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU START ADDING, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU START USING MULTIPLE TOOLS AND THEN COME MAKING YOUR, 
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UH, ARGUMENTS FOR OR AGAINST SOMETHING, UH, I THINK IT'S, IT MAKES MORE SENSE. 
          NOT THAT DOESN'T TELL YOU WHAT IS GONNA HAPPEN IN THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS, BUT IT DOES PRESENT ENOUGH INFORMATION THAT YOU'RE MAKING, UM, COHERENT ARGUMENTS AND, UH, BASED ON DATA, UM, FROM US FOR BEING HERE, UH, MEMBERS, I WANNA ASK YOU FROM STEWARDSHIP OF HEAD, FRANKLY, COME TOGETHER, YOUR RESEARCH. 
          WHAT YOUR, WHAT, SO WHAT HAS YOUR RESEARCH AND RELATIONSHIP UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU IS, IS YOUR QUESTION? I ASKED THE QUESTION. 
          RELATIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP, FAITH BASED, FAITH BASED ORGANIZATIONS. 
          OH, UH, ACTUALLY, CONTRIBU RESEARCH THE COMPANY, LEMME JUST SAY, I, I, I HOPE I UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION. 
          UM, THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT AND CLIMATE JUSTICE MOVEMENT CAME OUT OF THE FAITH COMMUNITY. 
          AND, AND IN TERMS OF THE LONGEVITY OF FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS AND CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATION, ORGANIZATIONS COMBINED, HAS MADE FOR, UH, UH, MORE POWERFUL CONSTITUENCIES. 
          AND I THINK THE, THE, THE CHURCHES, THE OTHER, UH, SYNAGOGUES, THE, THE FOLKS WHO ARE, ARE NON WELL , THE NON-DENOMINATIONAL GROUPS THAT ARE WORKING ON THIS STUFF, I THINK MANY OF THEM NOW ARE TAKING POSITIONS ON, UH, ON THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND, UH, THIS, THIS THREAT TO HUMANITY. 
          AND I THINK THE, LIKE THE GROUPS THAT WE WORK WITH, UH, ARE VERY, UH, ARE VERY OPEN ABOUT, UH, CHALLENGING THOSE FORCES THAT OPPRESS PEOPLE, WHETHER IT IS CORPORATE, UH, UH, DOLLARS THAT ARE SENT TO SOMEHOW POISON, UH, THE WATER, THE AIR, THE LAND, OR WHETHER IT IS GOVERNMENTS THAT, THAT SOMEHOW, UH, UH, TAKE AWAY PEOPLE'S RIGHTS. 
          UH, AND, AND NOT JUST 10,000 MILES AWAY, BUT EVEN HERE IN TERMS OF, OF THE GROUPS, THE LEADERS THAT ARE MOVING FAST AND FURIOUS WHEN IT COMES TO, UH, PROTECTING OUR DEMOCRACY, IT'S ALL, UH, WE SEE IT ALL, UH, TIED TOGETHER AND, AND THE RELIGIOUS FAITH COMMUNITY IS, UM, IT'S STILL, UM, A POWERFUL FORCE, UM, UH, IN TERMS OF MORAL FORCE THAT'S OUT THERE. 
          AND THEY HAVE NUMBERS. 
          SO I HOPE I ANSWERED YOUR QUESTION. 
          YOU DID. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UNFORTUNATELY, WE HAVE COME TO AN END IN TERMS OF OUR TIME. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US TODAY, AND PLEASE JOIN ME IN THANKING OUR PANEL FOR THE GREAT PRESENTATION. 
          THANK YOU, DR. KING. 
          THANK YOU. 
          GOOD JOB. 
          THANK YOU, . 
          NOW, I WANTED, BEFORE ANY OF YOU LEAVE, WE HAVE A PANEL UP HERE OF ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERTS. 
          WE EVEN HAVE THE FATHER OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE HERE. 
          YOUR QUESTIONS I CAN'T ANSWER. 
          HOWEVER, THIS PANEL CAN PROVIDE THOSE ANSWERS TO THOSE QUESTIONS. 
          SO IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS ANY OF YOUR QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS, OR JUST HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THIS PANEL OR OTHERS THAT MAY BE IN THE ROOM, TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO. 
          NOW, ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS. 
          MU TADA. 
          EVERY TIME I'VE CALLED ON HIM, HE SHOWED UP. 
          AND THIS HAS BEEN FOR YEARS. 
          IT'S NOT JUST THIS TIME FOR YEARS, YOU KNOW, AND WORKING, WE'VE BEEN DOING THIS THESE DAYS. 
          DOC, DR. 
          BULLISH THE SAME WAY. 
          UNLESS HE'S OUTTA TOWN, 
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HE'S HERE. 
          OKAY, . 
          SO, IN WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY AND KNOWING THE COMMUNITY'S ASKED AND REQUESTS, UH, THEY'RE AVAILABLE. 
          DR. 
          GRACE LOES, JENNIFER TEJADA, YOU KNOW, DR. KING, THE, I, I HARASS DR. KING . 
          WE DON'T JUST TALK. 
          I HARASS HER ALL, ALL DAY LONG, ALMOST EVERY DAY. 
          AND, UH, MR. HOTTER, YOUR DAY IS COMING. 
          OKAY, . 
          BUT NO, REALLY, I, I'M SURE THAT THEY'LL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO SPEND A LITTLE TIME. 
          I USUALLY THROW EVERYBODY UNDER THE BUS, BUT SPEND A LITTLE TIME TO ADDRESS, GET TO KNOW 'EM, ASK YOUR QUESTIONS, AND ALL OF THE ABOVE. 
          SO ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING.
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