Ignorance is Bliss (Series Supplement)
Remember the Kipp Dioxin Debacle? Lo and Behold, Kipp Has Been Producing Dioxins All This Time! (shhhh…..) Dioxin from Kipp’s…
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Ignorance is Bliss (Part 3 )
Toxic Contaminants at Madison-Kipp? Don’t Worry, There’s No Risk! Overview: Toxic Contaminants From Above and Below The U.S. EPA Notice…
Ignorance is Bliss (Part 2)
Forgot to follow Wisconsin pollution laws? No worries, DNR doesn’t mind In a previous article (below and here), MEJO explored…
Ignorance is Bliss (Part 2 Cont.)
A Note about the Industrial History of the Goodman and Kipp sites According to Goodman’s 2008 closure documents, previous manufacturing…
Ignorance is Bliss (Part 1)
Environmental Justice Issues at Madison-Kipp and Goodman Community Center Ignored The east side of Madison, Wisconsin, is not a place…
“What Else Can Hurt Lake Monona?” Part IV: Oops! Monona Terrace is not a model stormwater control facility after all
{Above-Monona Terrace, September 2022. Photo-Maria Powell ~~~ See the postscript to this piece As described in Part III, Monona Terrace…
“What Else Can Hurt Lake Monona?” Part III: “Unimaginable toxic horrors” remain unmeasured
[Above: People fishing at Monona Terrace over the Law Park Landfill. Photo-Maria Powell] ~~~ [W]hen government shifts from merely presenting…
Are contractors pumping PFAS & toxic Law Park landfill leachates into Lake Monona?
[Photo above and all photos in this post by Maria Powell] ******** Some of this is an excerpt from the…
Madison fouled its own nest, Part IV: “Madison Underground, Contamination Central”
[Above: Madison north/eastside landfill map, compiled by TRC for the Eastside Water Supply Project in 2012 when the Water Utility…
People’s Environmental History of Madison
I am still working on the People’s Environmental History of Madison, but rarely post excerpts here. If you are interested…
City of Madison
Hartmeyer natural area
Madison Water Utility
Oscar Mayer
Pesticides
PFCs or PFAS
Plastics
Soil contamination
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Toxins
Water Pollution
Water quality
What does 2021 hold for Oscar Mayer?
As PFAS pollution in Madison is detected in more and more places, and as the government regulating the pollution (WDNR)…
Madison fouled its own nest, Part III: “The wicked witch is dead”
This part of the “Madison fouled its own nest” series is based entirely on articles by Wisconsin State Journal reporter…
Madison’s upside-down environmental justice approach = environmental injustice (The MLK Jr. Madison would prefer we forget, Part II).
[Above: Truax/East Madison Community Center teens with MEJO leaders in early 2020 near Starkweather Creek where we tested PFAS in…
Government won’t test air pollution in the Madison-Kipp neighborhood, so citizens are doing it themselves
Above: View of Madison-Kipp’s Fair Oaks factory from the low-income apartments across the street. Clean Air Madison, MEJO, and Kipp…
Anne G. Chacon, 1942-2018
Dissident, Fearless Environmental Activist, Great Friend Anne Chacon, long-time resident of 138 S. Marquette St, passed away in her Monona…