We all are witness to the rape of the world–Tracy Chapman
“The Rape Of The World” By Tracy Chapman Mother of us all Place of our birth How can we stand aside And watch the rape of the world This the…
Air National Guard
Dane County
Dane County Regional Airport
Fish
Starkweather Creek
stormwater runoff
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Water Pollution
Wisconsin DNR
Dane County Airport’s WPDES permit is expired and doesn’t mention PFAS. Why?
Over two and a half years ago, June 2018, we asked DNR to include PFAS monitoring in Dane County airport’s WPDES permit, which includes requirements for regular monitoring of Starkweather…
Male fertility has been plummeting for almost 100 years; Why are we pretending this is a “new” problem?
Today’s New York Times column by Nicholas Kristof (pasted below for those who don’t have NYT subscriptions) raises alarms about declining sperm counts and fertility overall since the 70s, connected…
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 Powell to The Cap Times : In 2017, I wrote…
City of Madison
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Fish
PFCs or PFAS
Racial Justice
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Water Pollution
Starkweather fish rests after hard work soaking up PFAS
Free time after work! (Photo by Maria Powell, Summer 2018) This fish worked very hard cleaning up the PFAS in the west branch of Starkweather Ditch as it flows through…
City of Madison
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
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 MEJO collaborator. PFAS was found at significant levels in Monona…
Male fertility declining; toxic chemicals blamed
Image from the Book of Man, The Penis Gallery “Male fertility declining; toxic chemicals blamed”–Wisconsin State Journal, 1979 Scientists knew over 40 years ago that toxic chemicals were damaging male…
Toxic substances are everywhere, two UW profs say
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,…
City of Madison
Clean Lakes Alliance
Corporate greenwashing
Fish
PFCs or PFAS
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Water Pollution
Clean Lakes Alliance–Madison’s Darling Corporate Greenwashers
While unfunded, exhausted, and beleaguered Madison citizens slog for years begging city, county, and state agencies, and the U.S. military, to do more about the forever PFAS chemicals and a…
City of Madison
Community engagement
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Madison Metro
NEPA
Oscar Mayer
Public Participation
Racial disparities
Risk Assessment
Toxic Chemicals
Vapor intrusion
Wisconsin DNR
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 plans to buy the northern part of the highly-contaminated former…
Dane County Regional Airport
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
PFCs or PFAS
Starkweather Creek
Toxic Chemicals
Truax
Water Pollution
How much PFAS is oozing down Starkweather Creek from Dane County Regional Airport & Truax base??
Starkweather Creek flowing through the Darbo Worthington neighborhood, about a mile south of the airport and military base. See readable map here. Please contact info@mejo.us for reports with data depicted…