ENV-08 · Environmental justice overlay

Combine facility proximity with demographic layers; state what correlation is not.

Public demographic layers and facility locations from public sources. Distance/proximity method written before mapping. Correlation-is-not-causation paragraph required. No door-to-door surveying without school IRB/ethics path.

Declaring intent or discrimination from proximity alone. Thin census cells treated as precise. Map aesthetics as argument.

Overlay map; method note; correlation table with counts; explicit non-causal claim list; planning implications phrased carefully.

CT: proximity ≠ proof of intent. CR: pre-declared method. CO: peer checks cell sizes. CM: careful implications page. CZ: residents near the facility.

Env or social-studies teacher reviews non-causal language. School-supervised.

R1: one facility set, one demographic frame. R2: method reproducible. R3: regional baseline rates. R4: thin cells flagged. R5: implications careful. R6: non-causal list is graded.

(a) “The map proves targeting.” (b) Bright colors, no counts.

Lane A immediately. No verified credit claim.