MEJO founder Dr. Maria C. Powell has passed away
It is with great sadness that we announce that our founder, Maria Powell, has passed away. She will be missed greatly. OBITUARY | MARIA POWELL, 59 Maria Powell, longtime activist…
Everyone deserves a healthy environment
It is with great sadness that we announce that our founder, Maria Powell, has passed away. She will be missed greatly. OBITUARY | MARIA POWELL, 59 Maria Powell, longtime activist…
Image from mindovermetal.co.uk Toxic substances are everywhere, two UW profs say From United Press International (in the Wisconsin State Journal) Toxic substances endanger the health of virtually every Wisconsin resident,…
From Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”: “I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the…
Above: Burke sewage plant “trickling filters” built around 1916. Photo from Wisconsin Historical Society ******* One of Madison’s long-standing corporate powerhouses, Madison Gas & Electric (MGE), plans to build a…
Touyeng Xiong, MEJO Vice President, at Starkweather Creek tributary in April 2019 (Photo by John Hart, WSJ) By Steve Verburg, Wisconsin State Journal Madison and Dane County are neglecting to…
Dissident, Fearless Environmental Activist, Great Friend Anne Chacon, long-time resident of 138 S. Marquette St, passed away in her Monona apartment the weekend before Thanksgiving, after struggling with liver disease…
Photo: Kipp PCB raingarden, June 5, 2018 Are the Kipp raingarden PCB investigations and excavations finally over, six years after PCBs were first found there? Is the adjacent bikepath area…
One month ago, on March 10, 2018 Sharon Helmus died from complications after colon cancer surgery. She was 78. My husband and I visited Sharon three times in the hospital—our…
The class action lawsuit against Madison Kipp Corporation, settled in 2013, seems like eons ago. Have Kipp’s pollution problems been resolved? Far from it. PCBs remain in soils under the…
Photo: Past excavations of PCBs along bike path next to Madison-Kipp Corporation The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) finally settled the civil action against Madison-Kipp Corporation it initiated in September,…
Photo: Madison-Kipp Corporation’s die casting and aluminum melting stacks behind homes on Waubesa St. Today Steve Verburg reported in the Wisconsin State Journal that Madison-Kipp Corporation neighbors plan to set…
Graphic from the Nov 2, 2017 Isthmus weekly newspaper The Wisconsin State Journal published an October 28, 2017 article, “Best estimate is plume from Madison-Kipp plant could reach drinking water…
Photo: View from inside the Goodman Center’s Ironworks Cafe, looking out to the Kipp factory loading docks. A report from the Center for Public Environmental Oversight (CPEO), funded by EPA…
To learn more, see article by Steve Verburg in the Wisconsin State Journal…
In September 2012, the Wisconsin DOJ filed a lawsuit against Madison Kipp Corporation. It is still unresolved. Why? Because it was always intended as a tool to protect Kipp from…