Fundamental to understanding evolving infrastructure and technology is understanding the social and environmental drivers that affect where and how infrastructure is placed and used. A social and environmental justice database aligned to carbon storage systems will aid stakeholders in decision making around key future infrastructure (e.g., CCS injection locations) placement while helping contextualize these analyses against past and present-day social and environmental attributes. Much of the data required to support environmental justice and social justice (EJ/SJ) analyses are available from authoritative, largely governmental sources, but at present are disparate and require time-consuming acquisition, integration, and upkeep for currency.

In addition, ongoing studies such as the White House’s Justice 40 initiative, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) EJ Screen, and other EJ/SJ efforts are helping constrain fundamental definitions and priorities associated with EJ/SJ but may not include CCS-specific considerations or elements. NETL is leveraging these publicly available datasets and EJ/SJ findings within the context of CCS systems to develop an integrated CCS EJ/SJ integrated database will support the efficiency and ensure improved integrity of CS stakeholder needs for a range of commercial, regulatory, and research applications.

This is an evolving project and application will be updated periodically with new datasets and information.

Notes for consideration: This database/web map will be updated with as additional and new data and information becomes available and has been processed, reviewed, and approved for release. Additional state and federal entity data are planned to be integrated and included in future revisions. Summary layers provided in this application are derived from proprietary layers and do not always contain key features (age, status, or TVD) and therefore might not be shown when data are queried for those features.