by younggiftedgreen | Oct 27, 2024 | Catch the Green Tea, Policy Statements, YGG Spotlights, Young, Gifted & Green Blog Series
As part of our ongoing commitment to youth advocacy and environmental justice, we provided a Youth Environmental Justice Candidate Questionnaire to Michigan Congressional members in an effort for Michigan youth to understand each candidate’s positions on key...
by younggiftedgreen | Oct 17, 2024 | Catch the Green Tea, Policy Statements, YGG Spotlights, Young, Gifted & Green Blog Series
Young, Gifted & Green celebrates the recent Supreme Court ruling (7-1) that firmly upholds the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) carbon pollution rules for power plants. This decision is a significant victory for environmental justice and the communities we...
by younggiftedgreen | Aug 23, 2024 | Policy Statements, YGG Spotlights, Young, Gifted & Green Blog Series
Washington, DC-Young, Gifted & Green, a leading environmental justice and civil rights organization, applauds the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent announcement of $26 million in grants to help schools and childcare facilities test for and remediate...
by Aisha Harris | Jul 22, 2024 | Catch the Green Tea, Young, Gifted & Green Blog Series
On one hand we hope that this season of inflation is short lived but on the other hand we know how America works. So it is important to entertain various scenarios just in case things do not go as expected. One reality is that US Census shows that 11.5 percent of...
by younggiftedgreen | Jul 1, 2024 | Policy Statements
July 1, 2024 Young, Gifted & Green, a national civil rights and environmental justice organization, strongly condemns the Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo [1]. This decision further empowers federal judges to strike...
