Young, Gifted & Green

Congratulations to our Founder CEO & President LaTricea Adams along with Co-Founder Krys White for making history at the NAACP Image Awards featuring Climate + Environmental Justice on the Red Carpet✊🏿💪🏿 What a GREAT way to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth💚

Cancer linked chemical detected in private wells near Byhalia, EPA says Federal and state environmental officials are investigating groundwater contamination in a rural area west of Byhalia after a cancer-linked industrial chemical was discovered in several private drinki...

🚨 Cancer-linked chemical found in private wells near Byhalia, MS. Families rely on this water daily. Who’s accountable? Clean water isn’t optional.

Read:
www.fox13memphis.com/news/cancer-...

#EnvironmentalJustice #WaterSafety #Byhalia #PublicHealth

DC FAM! 🍳⚡

Join us 3/14/26 for Cooking with Good Energy — learn how gas stoves impact health & climate, explore clean electric options & catch a live demo with Chef GiGi.

Food giveaway + raffle (must register & attend).

RSVP: bit.ly/yggcooking

#DCEvents #CleanEnergy

Thank you to @momscleanairforce.org for this once in a lifetime opportunity to bring our Founder CEO & President LaTricea D. Adams to meet with the legendary @gloriasteinem.bsky.social, an icon and pioneer of the Women's Liberation Movement🥹

Toxic Beauty: Black Women Most at Risk From Harmful Chemicals in Unregulated Hair Products - Inside Climate News Hair extensions used primarily by Black women contain a “shocking” range of dangerous chemicals, including breast carcinogens, new research shows.

New research shows hair extensions commonly used by Black women may contain harmful chemicals linked to cancer, hormone disruption, and reproductive harm. In an unregulated beauty industry, safety and transparency are overdue.

Read more: insideclimatenews.org/news/1102202...

#EnvironmentalJustice

Young, Gifted, & Green 🌍 is teaming up with @paintanddebate 🎨 and a professional beekeeper 🐝 to spark meaningful conversation on environmental justice THIS SATURDAY.

📆: February 21, 2026
🕦: 6:30-8:00pm
📍: Dupont Underground, 19 Dupont Cir NW, Washington, DC 20036

South Memphis deserves safe homes & clean water. 🚰✊🏾

Join Young, Gifted & Green on Feb 21 (11AM–2PM) at Memphis Rox to canvass homes impacted by lead exposure and connect residents to FREE lead paint + water testing.

🔗 bit.ly/canvassmem
#EnvironmentalJustice #Memphis

#Baltimore residents—protect your water and your home. 💧

Join our FREE in-home lead service line testing & DPW self-reporting support on Feb 21, 2026. Know your service line, keep families safe, and strengthen our water infrastructure.

Sign up: bit.ly/baltimoretesting

#EnvironmentalJustice

🌍 Environmental Justice Toolkit 2.0 is here. Proud to see Young, Gifted & Green among contributors shaping equitable climate, energy, and air-quality engagement across our region.

🔗 www.mwcog.org/documents/20...

#EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateEquity #YGG

🔥 DC FAM! Join us 3/14/26 for Cooking with Good Energy—learn about gas stove health risks, explore clean electric cooking, enjoy a live demo with Chef GiGi, plus a limited food giveaway & raffle.

Register: bit.ly/yggcooking
#DCEvents #CleanEnergy #YGG

The Cost of Ignoring Fossil Fuel Pollution’s Health Impacts - Inside Climate News From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Steve Curwood with Dr. Vanessa Kerry at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Ever...

The real cost of fossil fuel pollution isn’t environmental — it’s human.

Air pollution from coal, oil & gas is driving illness, early deaths, and long-term harm, with frontline communities hit hardest.

insideclimatenews.org/news/2401202...

✨ Noir et Vert | 10 Years of Young, Gifted & Green ✨

An evening of Black excellence + environmental justice in the fight for a #LeadFreeUSA.

Honoring the legacies of Reps. McEachin & Grijalva and today’s EJ leaders.

🎟 RSVP: bit.ly/noiretvert26

Tampax Pearl Lawsuit Alleges Toxic Lead in Tampons May Enter Bloodstream A new class action lawsuit claims that Tampax Pearl tampons are misleadingly marketed as safe, despite allegedly containing toxic metals that may pose serious physical and neurological health risks.

Today is #WombWednesday!

Class action indicates Tampax Pearl tampons contain dangerously high levels of lead, which may expose women to numerous mental and physical side effects. www.aboutlawsuits.com/tampax-pearl....

#BlackMaternalHealth #EnvironmentalJustice #LeadFreeUSA

An Alabama Mayor Signed an NDA With a Data Center Developer. Read It Here. - Inside Climate News COLUMBIANA, Ala.—At first, no one knew about the non-disclosure agreement.  Columbiana’s then-mayor, David Mitchell, had signed the secrecy agreement with DigiPowerX, a data center developer, without ...

Secrecy has consequences. 🚨

Residents in Columbiana, AL learned their former mayor signed an NDA with a data center developer without public input—limiting transparency on community and environmental impacts.

insideclimatenews.org/news/1701202...

#TransparencyMatters #EnvironmentalJustice

Join us w/ @actonclimate + @edfaction for #TheGreenAgenda on the topic “Still Standing on Environmental Justice Business in 2026” featuring #YoungGiftedGreen Founder CEO & President LaTricea D. Adams. Learn more + Register at:
bit.ly/THEGREENAGENDA.

#EnvironmentalJustice

We are celebrating another AMAZING #MLKDay Weekend for our Lead Free South Memphis Canvass Day 2026!
Thank you to our community partners @HealthyHousing @ProtectAquifer @leadfreeshelby @uofmemphis, Memphis Lead Coalition, & Memphis & Shelby County Lead Safe Collaborative💚

🚰 Baltimore residents: protect your water & your home.
Get FREE in-home help completing DPW’s lead service line survey. Knowing what pipes connect to your home helps keep families safe.

📅 Jan 24 | Feb 21 | Mar 14 | Apr 11 | May 3 | Jun 13
🔗 bit.ly/baltimoretesting

#Baltimore #LeadAwareness

Announcing📢 One of our VERY special guests @LittleMissFlint as we countdown to Noir et Vert: Celebrating 10 Years of Young, Gifted & Green February 7, 2026 6PM ET Ìpàdé in Washington, DC: bit.ly/noiretvert26.

🖤💚

#NoiretVert #YoungGiftedGreen #LeadFreeUSA

Data Center Project Cancellations Quadrupled in 2025 as Locals Fight Back A win for advocacy!

Americans all over the country are saying enough is enough and fighting back against data centers that are driving up our energy bills, straining water supplies, and polluting our air.

Climate change hurts women more Extreme weather is linked to pregnancy complications, increased violence, and inescapable exposure to pollution and heat.

Today is #WombWednesday! According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, extreme weather is linked to #pregnancy complications, increased violence, & inescapable exposure to pollution & heat. #DefendOurClimate #MaternalHealth #EnvironmentalJustice

🔥 Cooking With Good Energy is back Jan 24! Learn about healthier cooking, cleaner air + energy savings.

Live demo w/ Chef GiGi, free meal, giveaway + raffle.

📍 Skyland Workforce Dev | 12–3PM

🔗 bit.ly/yggcooking
#YoungGiftedGreen #CleanEnergy

New Op-ed 🚨 Check out the latest piece from our Founder CEO & President LaTricea Adams.
Opinion: XAI must power a just transition for Memphis dailymemphian.com/article/5882...

🚰✊🏾 South Memphis deserves safe homes + clean water. Join YGG + EJ leaders to canvass homes impacted by lead exposure + connect families to FREE lead paint & water testing.

📅 Jan 17 | 11AM–2PM
📍 Memphis Rox

🔗 bit.ly/canvassmem

#LeadFreeSouthMemphis #EJ

FDA misses deadline on proposed ban on formaldehyde in hair-straightening products | CNN The US Food and Drug Administration has missed its latest deadline to propose banning formaldehyde and certain formaldehyde-releasing chemicals from hair-straightening products, often used by Black wo...

🚨 FDA misses another deadline to ban formaldehyde in hair-straightening products. Black women remain the most exposed and the most at risk. This delay is unacceptable. 🥺

🔗 www.cnn.com/2026/01/05/h...

#BeautyJustice #HealthEquity #ProtectBlackWomen

🌱✊🏾 Environmental justice is still standing in 2026.
Join The Green Agenda LIVE to talk climate, equity, and community power.

📅 Jan 22, 2026
⏰ 6PM ET / 5PM CT
📍 Facebook & YouTube

Register: bit.ly/THEGREENAGENDA

MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD BY 1/7/26: Join us with @actonclimateus.bsky.social to submit a comment to EPA demanding them NOT to delay closing coal ash ponds which increases public health risks. Take less than 60 seconds & submit your comment TODAY: bit.ly/nocoalash26.

Habari gani? #Imani! #Faith! In April 2024, #YoungGiftedGreen founded "Black Maternal & Environmental Health Day" observed on the first Thursday of April. To-date we have proclamations impacting over 4 million Black women
#Kwanzaa #BlackMaternalHealth

Habari gani? #Kuumba! #Creativity! Thank you to our partner @blackseedsurbanfarms for being amazing stewards hosting "Growing a Lead Free Community", a fun event on lead awareness w/ music & puppets! Learn more at blackseedsurbanfarm.com.

#Kwanzaa #YoungGiftedGreen #LeadFreeUSA

Our footprint in Flint has transitioned to building the next generation of #EnvironmentalJustice Leaders with programs like our Flint Youth EJ Council & annual EJ Summer Camp In partnership with @fphya. We are grateful for our Flint Family who welcomed us into a beautiful ministry🙏🏾
#Kwanzaa #Nia

Habari gani? Nia! Purpose!
In 2015 we joined @thursdaynetwork and other @nulyp chapters to organize a water donation drive for the #FlintWaterCrisis. Since 2015, we have hosted our annual Flint Weekend of Service for 9 years.