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In this week\u2019s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Ann Wolverton, a senior research economist at the US Environmental Protection Agency, about how the agency incorporates environmental justice in its rulemaking and its analysis of agency regulations. Wolverton discusses the history of accounting for environmental justice at federal agencies, how the availability and granularity of data affect this ability to evaluate environmental justice outcomes, and how formally considering environmental justice can inform federal regulations.\n\nReferences and recommendations:\n\n\u201cEnvironmental Justice Analysis for EPA Rulemakings: Opportunities and Challenges\u201d by Ann Wolverton; https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/724721\n\n\u201cEPA Draft Revision of Technical Guidance for Assessing Environmental Justice in Regulatory Analysis\u201d public comment period; https://www.epa.gov/environmental-economics/epa-draft-revision-technical-guidance-assessing-environmental-justice\n\n\u201cToms River\u201d by Dan Fagin; https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/dan-fagin