IG Says EPA's Equity Screening Updates Could Help Air Toxics Inspections

EPA's Inspector General (IG) says the agency's updates to its environmental justice (EJ) screening tool could boost efforts by its 10 regional offices to use equity as a factor when inspecting facilities to determine their compliance with air toxics rules, including making it possible to provide data on multiple facilities and locations at once. In a report released Feb. 26 , the IG concludes that the agency's regions are already using EJ as a component of their facility air toxics...