Access the Harvard Environment and Law Data (HELD) Collection

Researchers working with the Strengthening Communities cluster have made a dozen datasets available via the Harvard Dataverse – with more to come. This resource includes data from agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Energy (DOE), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Department of Interior (DOI), The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the White House Executive Office of the President (EOP), the Department of Transportation (DOT), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Researchers can access the codebook here.

Other resources for researchers interested in accessing government data related to environmental justice include:

• The Public Environmental Data Project
• The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
• The Environmental Policy and Innovation Center
• The Open Environmental Data Project
• BU X Harvard Climate and Health CAFÉResearch Coordinating Center (Dataverse here).