Purpose of Review This review examines government-sponsored environmental justice indices used in the United States, focusing on how their design choices operationalize justice. Rather than evaluating index outputs, we analyze their structural features, aggregation strategies, and underlying assumptions, and assess how they are used in peer-reviewed research between 2020 and 2025. Recent Findings Across jurisdictions, indices...

Purpose of Review The volume of public health environmental justice (EJ) research produced by academic institutions increased through 2022. However, the methods used for evaluating EJ in exposure science and epidemiologic studies have not been catalogued. Here, we completed a scoping review of EJ studies published in 19 environmental science and epidemiologic journals from 2018 to 2021 to summarize research types, frameworks,...