Reflections on Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
MEJO founder Dr. Maria C. Powell wrote three essays on Dr. King and his views on the “giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism,” each posted on previous MLK Jr…
Everyone deserves a healthy environment
MEJO founder Dr. Maria C. Powell wrote three essays on Dr. King and his views on the “giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism,” each posted on previous MLK Jr…
On October 26, the Midwest Environmental Advocates held a ceremony naming MEJO founder Maria Powell as one of its 2023 Bill Iwen Environmental Justice Awardees. MEJO Vice President Touyeng Xiong…
***** This is an addendum to my previous post… Last night (Aug. 3), the Lakes & Watershed Commission decided to increase the proposed budget amount for “engaging
This part of the “Madison fouled its own nest” series is based entirely on articles by Wisconsin State Journal reporter Ron Seely (all linked in the below article). There is…
Eken Park Resistance leaders and community members put jars of local waters in front of the City-County Building at the Water is Life event, April 2021 On May 23, Chris…
Heavily PFAS-contaminated Starkweather Creek water and sediments flood over a backyard garden in the Darbo-Worthington neighborhood in Madison, about a mile south of the Dane County Regional Airport and Truax…
Above: Fishing at the mouth of Starkweather Creek as it flows into Lake Monona at Olbrich Park (Photo-Maria Powell) April 27, 2021 To: Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway, Members of the Madison…
Oscar Mayer site in 1947 (photo from Wisconsin State Journal) Victory for Madison’s Northside! Madison’s Metro Transit authority has abandoned plans to buy the northern part of the highly-contaminated former…
By Madison Northsiders No Bus Barn is the Northside community’s voice for better land use at the previous Oscar Mayer site. We are dedicated to place-making in this new era…
Madison newspaper The Cap Times published this column on October 8. Column Madison’s long history of racist planning and development By Maria Powell | executive director, Midwest Environmental Justice Organization…
By Oona Mackesey-Green, Northside News (photo by Garth Olmanson) When the test results came back in February showing high levels of PFAS in the sediment at Starkweather Creek, a foot…
Maria Powell, Cap Times op-ed Photo above: Starkweather Creek going through Truax Field The final environmental impact statement (EIS) on basing F-35 fighter jets at Madison’s Truax Field states that…
On January 9, 2020, the Isthmus published a cover story on PFAS: “The fight for safe drinking water; Will Madison officials pay attention to the science on PFAS?” I commend…
As we’ve experienced for twenty years in Madison, local government prefers to keep the public out of actions it takes–or does not take–regarding locally-occurring toxic pollution problems. The proposed Madison-Dane…
Photo: Foam at the Starkweather Creek/Olbrich Park boat launch on October 24 (Wisconsin State Journal) Recent news about alarming levels of the highly toxic “forever chemicals” known as “PFAS” (per…