November 6, 2021 – Wisconsin Environmental Equity Tool Listening Session

November 6, 2021, 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m. – Wisconsin Environmental Equity Tool Listening Session (Virtual)

The Wisconsin Environmental Equity Tool is a comprehensive environmental and public health equity — or environmental justice — screening and mapping tool that is being developed by four state agencies in consultation with other organizations and community members. The tool will analyze and visualize data online so government and tribal agencies, community-based organizations, and the public can pinpoint Wisconsin’s most impacted communities, and better understand the challenges they face from pollution, a changing climate, socioeconomic factors, and other environmental and health hazards.

The state agencies want to ensure the mapping tool reflects real-world experiences, especially Wisconsin’s communities of color, low-income communities, rural communities, Tribal Nations, and immigrant communities, who are often burdened with the greatest environmental and health consequences and inequities.

There are several ways to share your experiences and ideas:

1. Attend a virtual, public listening session in November via Zoom or toll-free phone number. Choose from one of three sessions. Register for a listening session to access the Zoom link or toll-free phone number by choosing a date below. Interpretation for the listening sessions is available in Spanish and Hmong by request.

• Tuesday, November 2 at 7 p.m.(link is external)
• Thursday, November 4 at 4:30 p.m.(link is external)
• Saturday, November 6 at 10 a.m.(link is external)

2. Provide input in an online survey(link is external).
3. Send written comments or questions to EnvEquity@wedc.org(link sends e-mail).
4. Attend a meeting of the WEET Advisory Committee once it’s formed in 2022.

In-person listening sessions may be scheduled in the future when it is safer to gather indoors.