January 2021 - Madison Environmental Justice

City of Madison Hartmeyer natural area Madison Water Utility Oscar Mayer Pesticides PFCs or PFAS Plastics Soil contamination Starkweather Creek Toxic Chemicals Toxins Water Pollution Water quality

What does 2021 hold for Oscar Mayer?

January 31, 2021 Jim Powell

As PFAS pollution in Madison is detected in more and more places, and as the government regulating the pollution (WDNR) and the government entities responsible for much of that pollution…

Madison Water Utility

DNR orders new plan to stop spread of PFAS at Madison airport after experimental treatment fails

January 27, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Starkweather Creek flowing from the Dane County Regional Airport By Chris Hubbuch, Wisconsin State Journal The Department of Natural Resources says an experimental technology has failed to keep so-called “forever…

Air National Guard Cancer City of Madison Ecology Environmental health Environmental Justice Fish Fish Advisory Military PFCs or PFAS Racial disparities Racial Justice Racism Starkweather Creek Toxic Chemicals Truax Water Pollution

Oops! We poisoned the “Giants Among Us”–the Yahara lakes

January 22, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

MEJO’s Jim Powell and Touyeng Xiong teach kids how to put bait on fish hooks at the Olbrich Park fishing pier on Lake Monona, summer 2018. Sadly, they couldn’t eat…

Air National Guard City of Madison Environmental Justice F-35 Fighter jets Fish Inequality Military Poverty Privilege Racial disparities Racism Starkweather Creek Toxic Chemicals Truax

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s forgotten “giant triplets” alive & well in Madison, Wisconsin

January 18, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

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…

Economic justice Inequality Poverty Racial disparities Racial Justice Racism

My Father, Martin Luther King Jr., Had Another Dream

January 18, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

By Martin Luther King III, New York Times If he saw the issues of poverty and income inequality that exist today, he would be greatly disappointed. See video of Martin…

What does 2021 hold for Oscar Mayer?

DNR orders new plan to stop spread of PFAS at Madison airport after experimental treatment fails

Oops! We poisoned the “Giants Among Us”–the Yahara lakes

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s forgotten “giant triplets” alive & well in Madison, Wisconsin

My Father, Martin Luther King Jr., Had Another Dream

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