• FHWA’s Environmental Justice website is a comprehensive source of transportation-related information, including a brochure,  case studies, effective practices, and resources.
• FHWA’s Re: NEPA online Community of Practice provides the opportunity to submit questions and obtain answers from FHWA staff and practitioners nationwide.
• Transportation Capacity Building Program website includes but is not limited to information on environmental justice.  It includes frequently asked questions, peer exchanges (e.g., Identifying and Engaging Low Literacy and Limited English Proficiency Populations in the Transportation
  Decision-making Process), training programs, and technical programs.
• Planning and Environmental Linkages website includes information related to the linking of transportation planning and NEPA, including legislation, regulations, guidance, workshops, and case studies.

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• ·         FTA’s Environmental Justice website provides environmental justice information specifically oriented to public transportation.

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• Office of Civil Rights

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• Office for Civil Rights. 
• Americans with Disabilities Act home page provides ADA regulations and information for State and local governments.

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• The White House Council on Environmental Quality provides information on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and related environmental impacts. 

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• EPA’s Public Involvement web site contains the agency’ resources for involving the public, including case studies, dispute resolution, and a resources-and-training database. 
• The agency’s Environmental Justice home page. 
• Environmental Justice Geographic Assessment Tool allows user to zoom in by specifying a city, county, state, zip code, watershed, EPA region, latitude/longitude, facility or address and see various demographics (i.e. percent minority, percent below poverty, per capita income, percent of people who speak English).  
• Window to My Environment is a web-based tool that provides a range of federal, state, and local environmental information about an area of choice. 
• The Environmental Justice Bibliography Database (EJBib) unites the interest in environmental justice with the advantages of computer technology. EJBib is a fully-indexed bibliography of published materials relating to environmental justice, as well as such related topics as risk assessment and social justice.
• The The National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) is a federal advisory committee that provides independent advice, consultation, and recommendations to the EPA Administrator on matters related to environmental justice.  

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• The Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Management web site contains the current poverty guidelines, related information, and links to other useful web sites. 
• The Administration on Aging web site includes a eldercare locator that provides the name and location of the local agency on aging by state, county, and/or city of organizations.  These local agencies can provide more detailed information such as, senior daycare facilities, housing and long-term care facilities, and senior centers as well as scheduled events that can offer “piggyback” opportunities for public involvement activities.  

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• The U.S. Census Bureau provides extensive data, date tools,  and resources related to the Census of the Population and the American Community Survey (ACS).  

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• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development web site provides a listing of subsidized apartment, public housing, the number of units, their location. 

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• The National Institute for Literacy is a federal agency that works in consultation with the U.S. Departments of Education, Labor, and Health and Human Services to serve as a national resource on current, comprehensive literacy research, practice, and policy.

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• Washington State Department of Transportation -- An example of an environmental justice resource-based web site maintained by State DOTs.

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• The Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (AMPO) provides technical resources and publications.  
• The membership of the National Association of Regional Councils (NARC) includes membership includes: regional councils (RCs), region-wide associations of local governments -- councils of government (COGs), regional planning and development agencies, and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs).
• U.S. Conference of Mayors is the official nonpartisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. 

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• National Academy of Sciences, National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP). Project 8-36 provides a flexible, ongoing program of quick-response research for the AASHTO Standing Committee on Planning, including improvements to analytical methods, decision-support tools, procedures, and techniques that can be employed by practitioners to support statewide and metropolitan transportation planning, programming, and development.  NCHRP 8-36 reports are available at AASHTO’s website, and include several that relate to environmental justice. In addition, Project 25-25 provides a flexible, ongoing program of quick-response research for the AASHTO Standing Committee on Environment.

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• A Citizen's Guide to Using Federal Environmental Laws to Secure Environmental Justice (2002) Environmental Law Institute
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• The Center for Environmental Justice of the National Center for Public Policy provides a compilation of the press releases, op-ed/commentaries and other publications issued by The National Center for Public Policy Research and Project 21 dealing with the issue of the environment and the poor and minorities.
• The Southern Environmental Law Center has used the full power of the law to conserve clean water, healthy air, wild lands, and livable communities throughout the Southeast.
• The Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP) is a diverse, nationwide coalition working to ensure safer communities and smarter transportation choices.  Programs include social equity and livability.
• The Environmental Defense web site includes information and publications related to Environmental Justice.
• The Sierra Club web site includes a section on Environmental Justice.
• The National Resources Defense Council web site contains Environmental Justice references and organizational links.
• The Center for Neighborhood Technology promotes the development or livable and sustainable communities.
• African American Environmentalist Association is an environmental organization dedicated to protecting the environment, enhancing the human ecology, promoting the efficient use of nature resources and increasing African American participation in the environmental movement.
• The GreenAction web for health and environmental justice is an example of a regional organization.
• The Little Village Environmental Justice Organization is a Chicago-based community organization.
• The Environmental Law Institute is an independent, non-partisan environmental education and policy research center.
• The Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law is a private, non-partisan legal organization.
• The National Resource Center for Human Service Transportation Coordination is part of United We Ride and provide technical assistance in the development and implementation of coordinated human service transportation plans.
• The National Council of churches of Christ has an Eco-Justice Program.

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• Clark Atlanta University, Environmental Justice Resource Center
• Clark Atlanta University, Southern Center for Studies in Public Policy
• Texas Southern University, Environmental Law and Justice Center
• Washington State University, Center for Social and Environmental Justice
• Dillard University, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice
• Victoria Transport Policy Institute’s On-Line TDM Encyclopedia contains sections on increasing equity and equity evaluation.
• The Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change  at Case Western Reserve University seeks to address the problems of persistent and concentrated urban poverty and is dedicated to understanding how social and economic changes affect low-income communities, and how living in these communities affects the well-being of their residents.
• Harvard University’s interdisciplinary Working Group on Environmental Justice maintains an Internet site of relevant studies and resource information.

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• The National Highway Institute and the National Transit Institute offer training courses on Environmental Justice and related topics.
• Fundamentals of Title VI/Environmental Justice, Course FHWA-NHI-142042
• NEPA and Project Decision-making, Course FHWA-NHI-141005
• Public Involvement in the Transportation Decision-Making Process, Course FHWA-NHI-142036
• Introduction to Context Sensitive Solutions, Course FHWA-NHI 142050
• Context Sensitive Solutions in a Multi-Modal Environment, Course FTA-NTI-817
• Pedestrian Facility Design, Course FHWA-NHI-142045
• Implications of Air Quality Planning for Transportation, Course FHWA-NHI-142044
• Community Impact Assessment, existing course being updated and adapted for NHI

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