A miracle!?! PFAS is no longer a problem in Madison’s drinking water, says Water Utility
But is it true? No. In 2019 and 2020, the PFAS found in Madison’s drinking water was a big deal.…
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Are eastside Madison residents breathing poisonous vapors? Does anyone care?
[Above–how chlorinated compounds in soils and shallow groundwater can rise up (vaporize) into homes and businesses above them — a…
Lo and behold, the Madison-Kipp poison plume is still there!
[Above: June 2021 plume map of PCE emanating from Madison-Kipp Corp, north-south cross section/isocontour. Where is Madison-Kipp? Above the solid…
Dane County
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
PFCs or PFAS
Racial disparities
Starkweather Creek
“‘Something has to be done’ about Starkweather Creek, one of Wisconsin’s most polluted waterways”–Wisconsin Watch
Above–MEJO’s Ida Jammeh (left) talking with residents of Darbo-Worthington neighborhood about Starkweather Creek in 2018 (photo by Maria Powell). Learn…
Illicit discharges of lies? The ongoing saga of Dane County’s long overdue stormwater ordinance
Above, drainage into Starkweather Creek from the highly PFAS contaminated Dane County-owned Darwin Rd. burn pit. Back in April of…
Air National Guard
City of Madison
Dane County
Department of Defense
Environmental health
PFCs or PFAS
Starkweather Creek
Truax
Wisconsin DNR
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,…
Air National Guard
City of Madison
Environmental Justice
F-35
PFCs or PFAS
Public Participation
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Starkweather Creek
Water Pollution
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…
Air Pollution
City of Madison
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Madison
Racial disparities
WisDOT
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…
City of Madison
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Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District
Oscar Mayer
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Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Wastewater Treatment
Water Pollution
Yahara Lakes
Oscar Mayer contamination must be fully investigated & remediated before redevelopment
For 100 years, Oscar Mayer & Co. and corporations that purchased it have polluted the land and groundwater beneath the…
Does anyone in Madison care about pesticide use? Whatever happened to ecology?
Photo: City of Madison worker applying pesticides along curbs at the Warner Park Center parking lot A letter by Jim…
City of Madison
Environmental health
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Fish
Fish Advisory
PCBs
Pesticides
PFCs or PFAS
Pharmaceuticals
Plastics
Racial disparities
Racism
stormwater runoff
Toxic Chemicals
Water Pollution
Wisconsin DNR
Yahara Lakes
Monona Bay, Downtown Madison’s Toxic Cesspool
Fish art on Monona Bay created by Eric Anang. Photo by Amber Arnold, Wisconsin State Journal. Graphic additions by a…
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What is Environmental Justice? These 17 principles of Environmental Justice were drafted and adopted by the Delegates to the…
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Victory!! No Metro Bus Barn at the Poisoned Oscar Mayer site
Oscar Mayer site in 1947 (photo from Wisconsin State Journal) Victory for Madison’s Northside! Madison’s Metro Transit authority has abandoned…
City of Madison
Hartmeyer natural area
Madison Water Utility
Oscar Mayer
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Starkweather Creek
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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)…