MEJO supporting RayovACTION Road Trip for Battery Recycling
The Midwest Environmental Justice Organization is collaborating with the Texas Campaign for the Environment (TCE) on it’s epic RayovACTION Road…
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Is Kipp A Safe Place to Work? Cleaning Employee Fired by Contractor for Asking
(Madison-Kipp Worker Pouring Molten Aluminum) –Madison Kipp Corporation’s non-unionized manufacturing workers, and contractors brought in to clean and do other…
So Sorry, DNR! Here’s the full transcript of the Jan. 29 2014 MEJO-DNR meeting
(MEJO President, Dr. Maria Powell) In a meeting on March 21st, two DNR managers and two DNR lawyers scolded MEJO…
Still Invisible: The Risks of Eating Locally Caught Fish from Polluted Waters
MEJO’s first project involved toxins in locally caught fish in Madison, Wis. What we had expected to be a two…
About MEJO
MEJO is a 501(c)(3) non-profit grassroots organization that formed in 2005 as the Madison Environmental Justice Organization (also called the…
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What is Environmental Justice? These 17 principles of Environmental Justice were drafted and adopted by the Delegates to the First…
Ignorance is Bliss (Part 1)
Environmental Justice Issues at Madison-Kipp and Goodman Community Center Ignored The east side of Madison, Wisconsin, is not a place…
Community Center and School At-Risk
Madison-Kipp Sued by State and Cited by EPA Madison’s oldest polluter, Madison-Kipp Corp, is being sued by the State of…
Greenwashing and Doublespeak in Wisconsin Highway Plan
The price tag for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation two-decade, three-phase plan for the reconstruction of the Verona Road and…
“Invisible People, Invisible Risks”
In the new MIT Press book, Technoscience and Environmental Justice: Expert Cultures in a Grassroots Movement, the Midwest Environmental Justice…
Fish Advisory Signs Victory!
In recognition of the human health concerns of eating locally caught fish, the City of Madison and Dane County has…
Will “capping” arsenic at Hartmeyer housing protect vulnerable people?
[Image from the Collaborative on Health & the Environment, CHE] ~~~ City of Madison planners are working with developers from…
Corporate Behemoth Kraft-Heinz wants to cover up its poisons, Part II: Community resists
First, a little background… Part I described how Kraft Heinz purchased the Hartmeyer property, and how our current “remediation and…
“What Else Can Hurt Lake Monona?” Part IV: Oops! Monona Terrace is not a model stormwater control facility after all
{Above-Monona Terrace, September 2022. Photo-Maria Powell ~~~ See the postscript to this piece As described in Part III, Monona Terrace…
Indigenous Peoples’ Day in Madison Wisconsin
[Above: Two–some say three–hundred-year-old oak trees in an Indigenous burial area on Madison’s North Side near where California-based developers are…