Clean Lakes Alliance: How can we help our PFAS-poisoned lakes & fish?
How can we help our PFAS-poisoned Yahara lakes and fish? Clean Lakes Alliance and its corporate sponsors–wealthy corporations, chemical producers, gas and electric utilities, developers, law firms, banks–recommend that we…
Fish from all Yahara lakes except Mendota and Wingra on advisory for PFAS
DNR: Fish from Yahara chain of lakes contaminated with PFAS; anglers warned to limit consumption Chris Hubbuch, Wisconsin State Journal Health officials are warning anglers to limit consumption of fish…
Dane County attorney assures supervisors that PFAS at Truax Field is under control
Above, Amy Tutwiler, attorney with Dane County Corporation Counsel Last week Abigail Becker of the Cap Times reported on the June 3 special county board meeting about the PFAS mess…
We all are witness to the rape of the world–Tracy Chapman
“The Rape Of The World” By Tracy Chapman Mother of us all Place of our birth How can we stand aside And watch the rape of the world This the…
Again, Madison and Dane County pass the buck to the military on cleaning up burn pits. Why?
The highly contaminated Darwin Road burn pit area at the Dane County Regional Airport was used by the city, county, and military from the 1950s-1980s. Above, the airport’s cell phone…
Mayor responds to Sustainable Madison Committee’s PFAS Recommendations
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…
DNR repeatedly engages public in Marinette & Peshtigo on PFAS–but ignores Madison
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…
Oscar Mayer Sludge History, Part II
The latest installment of Maria’s Powell’s saga of a corporation and the city that loved it…to its own detriment. OSCAR MAYER SLUDGE HISTORY, PART II <– NEW OSCAR MAYER’S INSECTICIDE…
Fighter jets, environmental education, and social justice do not mix
On May 10, F-16s from Madison’s Air National Guard Truax Field took off while MEJO’s Touyeng Xiong was teaching kids from the East Madison Community Center about birds, trees, and…
Oscar Mayer’s Earth Day, 1970: Spray chemical perfumes on sewage stench!
In 1970, just before Madison’s first Earth Day, Oscar Mayer installed a mile-long system that misted artificial chemical perfumes around its sludge lagoons–after decades of neighborhood complaints about the sewage…
May Day! May Day! Madison-Kipp workers
Above: Workers in Kipp factory Is anyone assessing risks to Madison Kipp workers? There’s a plume of highly toxic PCE and TCE under the plant vaporizing into the air workers…
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 neighborhood activists tried for many, many years–to no avail–to convince…
UPDATE 2: Has Dane County actually been violating its DNR stormwater permit for 26 years?
UPDATE 2: Following up (again) on my original post, looking at my old stormwater regulation notes today, I saw that the City of Madison and Dane County received their first…
Sustainable Madison Committee to Mayor and Council on PFAS
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…
In “green” Madison, air pollution ‘disproportionately and systematically’ harms people of color
(Photo above: Construction during the Madison Verona Rd-W. Beltline highway expansion) The Washington Post reported yesterday: “Deadly air pollutant ‘disproportionately and systematically’ harms Americans of color, study finds.” This finding…