Citizen calls out Madison’s denialism: “Waterfront design won’t clean lake”
[Above: Lake Monona waterfront at Law Park, summer 2022. Photo-Maria Powell] ***** In a letter to the editor in Sunday’s…
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“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…
Mad City Ski Team loves the Law Park landfill! Perhaps we should expand it?
[Above: slide presented at the Lake Monona Waterfront Ad Hoc Committee at its October 19 meeting] ***** When it dumped…
Lessons from the past: Beware the Chamber of Commerce Juggernaut!
In the 1990s, a powerful Chamber of Commerce Juggernaut finally made Frank Lloyd Wright’s Monona Terrace happen after decades of…
Dane County Airport’s “EcoMentality” = Doublespeak + Magical Thinking
[Above: giant storm drain that receives stormwater runoff from one of the most contaminated areas at Dane County Regional Airport…
WHO: An estimated two million lives were lost due to chemical exposures in 2019
Our regulatory system is a failure. If two million lives were lost due to chemical exposures in 2019, about the…
“What Else Can Hurt Lake Monona?” Part II: Let’s build Monona Terrace on top of a carcinogen-leaching landfill in the lake!
[Above: Trucks on shoreline as Monona Terrace construction begins at Law Park in 1995. Photo of a photo in DNR…
Dane County “fixing to get ready” to do something about burn pits
[Above: surface water flowing through the highly contaminated Darwin burn pit area (adjacent to the airport cell phone lot) into…
Gee what a surprise! Clean Lakes Alliance presenters neglect to mention Law Park landfill
[Above: Screenshot from the CLA presentation, Wed. September 14] ******* Curiously, the presentation by Allen Arntsen and Mike Sturm at…
The City of Madison says it has no Law Park landfill records. Really?
[Image above from City of Madison website] ****** As described in detail in the last post, from the 1930s to…
“What Else Can Hurt Lake Monona?” Part I: Law Park is a landfill
**** [This piece will likely be edited/added to in coming days…] On August 15, 2022, Dean Mosiman of the Wisconsin…
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PFAS Poisoned Yahara Lakes
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Lakes & Watershed Commissioners clueless about public engagement…or just don’t care?
[Above: MEJO Vice President Touyeng Xiong, who grew up in the Truax neighborhood next to Starkweather Creek, speaks to the…
Lakes & Watershed Commission: Who is most burdened by PFAS? Who doesn’t have a voice? How can county policies mitigate unintended consequences?
[Above, MEJO intern Ida Jammeh testifying before the Dane County Lakes & Watershed Commission, July 19, 2018] ***** (See Part…
Are we getting dumber? Yes
During the 1990s, as a community environmental activist and academic researcher, I focused for several years on endocrine disruptors, especially…
“Get out of my freakin’ way!” bikers scream at Monona Terrace anglers. Why?
[People fishing at “the wall” at Monona Terrace on July 27, 2022. Photo: Maria Powell] Last week I talked to…