ProUCL is a software package made available by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide environmental scientists with better tools with which to conduct statistical analyses. ProUCL has been in production for over ten years and is in its fifth major version. In time, it has included more sophisticated and appropriate analysis tools. However, there is still substantial criticism of i...

OBJECTIVES We sought to demonstrate the advantages of using individual-level survey data in quantitative environmental justice analyses and to provide new evidence regarding racial and socioeconomic disparities in the distribution of polluting industrial facilities. METHODS Addresses of respondents in the baseline sample of the Americans' Changing Lives Study and polluting industrial faciliti...

1National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC 20460, USA 2Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada H3T 1A8 3National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protect...