“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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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…
Toxic Newspeak from Madison’s past is leaching from Law Park into Lake Monona. Who cares?
I was pleasantly surprised to read the editorial headline in today’ Wisconsin State Journal: A surface parking lot for Downtown…
Oscar Mayer Sludge History, Part II
Part 1 of this article told the story of Oscar Mayer & Co. sloshing sludge into Starkweather Creek, the Yahara…
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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…
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UPDATE: Dane County has been violating its DNR stormwater permit for 17 years
Above: Storm drains at Dane County Regional Airport, flowing through contaminated soils into Starkweather Creek. Are these city or county…
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Dane County has been violating its DNR stormwater permit for 17 years
Above: Storm drains at Dane County Regional Airport, flowing through contaminated soils into Starkweather Creek. Are these city or county…
Oscar Mayer
OSCAR MAYER, PART II OSCAR MAYER’S INSECTICIDE EXPERIMENTS AND MANUFACTURING OSCAR MAYER INVESTIGATIVE & REMEDIAL REPORTS MEJO’s COMMENTS ON CITY’S…
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Firefighting Foam Action in Wisconsin
From International Fire Fighter Vicki Quint Water contamination issues from PFAS are creating pressure on the fire service to make…
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Earth Day 1970 in Madison, Wisconsin
Fifty years ago, on April 22, 1970, the first Earth Day events were held across the United States, spearheaded by…
As DNR contemplates PFAS regulation, industry seeks to narrow scope
By Chris Hubbuch, Wisconsin State Journal As Wisconsin moves to limit human exposure to a new class of toxic chemicals,…
CSWAB UPDATE: Wisconsin Groups Join Together in Call for Regulating PFAS
Today – on this national Imagine a Day Without Water – 28 environmental and social justice organizations from around Wisconsin…
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MEJO’s Touyeng Xiong, Truax Apartment resident, testifies against proposed F-35s
Touyeng Xiong, MEJO’s Vice President, testifying before the Sept. 12, 2019 U.S. Air Force meeting about the proposed F-35 fighter…
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Are we spiritually dead? What would Martin Luther King Jr. say?
“Giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism” dominate even in liberal Madison “I am convinced that if we are to…
Eco Crises: Doom & Gloom, Truth & Consequences
By Kristine Mattis, Counterpunch. Photo Source Sakeeb Sabakka | CC BY 2.0 …We can’t save the world by playing by…