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Male fertility has been plummeting for almost 100 years; Why are we pretending this is a “new” problem?

February 21, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Today’s New York Times column by Nicholas Kristof (pasted below for those who don’t have NYT subscriptions) raises alarms about declining sperm counts and fertility overall since the 70s, connected…

City of Madison City of Madison Parks Department Environmental health Pesticides Toxic Chemicals

Does anyone in Madison care about pesticide use? Whatever happened to ecology?

February 18, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Photo: City of Madison worker applying pesticides along curbs at the Warner Park Center parking lot A letter by Jim Powell to The Cap Times : In 2017, I wrote…

City of Madison Environmental health Environmental Justice Fish PFCs or PFAS Racial Justice Starkweather Creek Toxic Chemicals Water Pollution

Starkweather fish rests after hard work soaking up PFAS

February 17, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Free time after work! (Photo by Maria Powell, Summer 2018) This fish worked very hard cleaning up the PFAS in the west branch of Starkweather Ditch as it flows through…

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Monona Bay, Downtown Madison’s Toxic Cesspool

February 15, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Fish art on Monona Bay created by Eric Anang. Photo by Amber Arnold, Wisconsin State Journal. Graphic additions by a MEJO collaborator. PFAS was found at significant levels in Monona…

Environmental health PFCs or PFAS Toxic Chemicals

Male fertility declining; toxic chemicals blamed

February 10, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Image from the Book of Man, The Penis Gallery “Male fertility declining; toxic chemicals blamed”–Wisconsin State Journal, 1979 Scientists knew over 40 years ago that toxic chemicals were damaging male…

Environmental health PCBs PFCs or PFAS Plastics Risk Assessment Toxic Chemicals

Toxic substances are everywhere, two UW profs say

February 10, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Image from mindovermetal.co.uk Toxic substances are everywhere, two UW profs say From United Press International (in the Wisconsin State Journal) Toxic substances endanger the health of virtually every Wisconsin resident,…

City of Madison Clean Lakes Alliance Corporate greenwashing Fish PFCs or PFAS Starkweather Creek Toxic Chemicals Water Pollution

Clean Lakes Alliance–Madison’s Darling Corporate Greenwashers

February 4, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

While unfunded, exhausted, and beleaguered Madison citizens slog for years begging city, county, and state agencies, and the U.S. military, to do more about the forever PFAS chemicals and a…

City of Madison Community engagement Environmental health Environmental Justice Madison Metro NEPA Oscar Mayer Public Participation Racial disparities Risk Assessment Toxic Chemicals Vapor intrusion Wisconsin DNR

Victory!! No Metro Bus Barn at the Poisoned Oscar Mayer site

February 3, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

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…

Dane County Regional Airport Environmental health Environmental Justice PFCs or PFAS Starkweather Creek Toxic Chemicals Truax Water Pollution

How much PFAS is oozing down Starkweather Creek from Dane County Regional Airport & Truax base??

February 1, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Starkweather Creek flowing through the Darbo Worthington neighborhood, about a mile south of the airport and military base. See readable map here. Please contact info@mejo.us for reports with data depicted…

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?

January 31, 2021 Jim Powell

As PFAS pollution in Madison is detected in more and more places, and as the government regulating the pollution (WDNR) and the government entities responsible for much of that pollution…

Madison Water Utility

DNR orders new plan to stop spread of PFAS at Madison airport after experimental treatment fails

January 27, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Starkweather Creek flowing from the Dane County Regional Airport By Chris Hubbuch, Wisconsin State Journal The Department of Natural Resources says an experimental technology has failed to keep so-called “forever…

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Oops! We poisoned the “Giants Among Us”–the Yahara lakes

January 22, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

MEJO’s Jim Powell and Touyeng Xiong teach kids how to put bait on fish hooks at the Olbrich Park fishing pier on Lake Monona, summer 2018. Sadly, they couldn’t eat…

Air National Guard City of Madison Environmental Justice F-35 Fighter jets Fish Inequality Military Poverty Privilege Racial disparities Racism Starkweather Creek Toxic Chemicals Truax

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s forgotten “giant triplets” alive & well in Madison, Wisconsin

January 18, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

From Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”: “I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the…

Economic justice Inequality Poverty Racial disparities Racial Justice Racism

My Father, Martin Luther King Jr., Had Another Dream

January 18, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

By Martin Luther King III, New York Times If he saw the issues of poverty and income inequality that exist today, he would be greatly disappointed. See video of Martin…

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Madison Northsiders say NO to Metro Bus Barn!

November 22, 2020 Maria C. Powell, PhD

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…

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