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