Research Mentor(s)
Abel, Troy
Description
Forwarding research analyzing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Environmental Justice Small Grant (EJSG) program. According to the EPA, Environmental Justice is built around “the meaningful involvement of all people… with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies (EPA, 2014)”. The former research of Abel and Stephan analyzed grants years 1996-2002 and Sarver’s 2003-2011 analysis. Their analysis confirmed EPA’s EJSG program capacities have been granting civic capacity the least, which contradicts the EPA’s mission to EJSG program. This forwarding research hypothesizes is that EJSG’s will track the previous research’s trends given the historical data. In querying the 217 EPA EJSG grants 2012-2019, it was quantified that the program capacities were 39% informational, 30% organizational, 19% technical and 12% civic, thus trending the historical data. In addition to the forwarding research, new findings emerged that also included critically analyzing indigenous groups. Indigenous groups were quantified as receiving limited awards at
Document Type
Event
Start Date
18-5-2020 12:00 AM
End Date
22-5-2020 12:00 AM
Department
Environmental Studies
Genre/Form
student projects, posters
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
United States. Environmental Protection Agency--Decision making; Environmental policy--United States--Decision making
Geographic Coverage
United States
Type
Image
Keywords
Environmental justice, Environmental Policy, EPA, small grants, indigenous environmental justice
Rights
Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this document for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author’s written permission.
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Included in
EPA’s Meaningful Involvement in EJ: Mission Accomplished?
Forwarding research analyzing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Environmental Justice Small Grant (EJSG) program. According to the EPA, Environmental Justice is built around “the meaningful involvement of all people… with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies (EPA, 2014)”. The former research of Abel and Stephan analyzed grants years 1996-2002 and Sarver’s 2003-2011 analysis. Their analysis confirmed EPA’s EJSG program capacities have been granting civic capacity the least, which contradicts the EPA’s mission to EJSG program. This forwarding research hypothesizes is that EJSG’s will track the previous research’s trends given the historical data. In querying the 217 EPA EJSG grants 2012-2019, it was quantified that the program capacities were 39% informational, 30% organizational, 19% technical and 12% civic, thus trending the historical data. In addition to the forwarding research, new findings emerged that also included critically analyzing indigenous groups. Indigenous groups were quantified as receiving limited awards at