May 2021 - Madison Environmental Justice

Air National Guard City of Madison Dane County Department of Defense Environmental health PFCs or PFAS Starkweather Creek Truax Wisconsin DNR

Again, Madison and Dane County pass the buck to the military on cleaning up burn pits. Why?

May 26, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

The highly contaminated Darwin Road burn pit area at the Dane County Regional Airport was used by the city, county, and military from the 1950s-1980s. Above, the airport’s cell phone…

City of Madison Community engagement Environmental Justice PFCs or PFAS Public Participation

Mayor responds to Sustainable Madison Committee’s PFAS Recommendations

May 26, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Eken Park Resistance leaders and community members put jars of local waters in front of the City-County Building at the Water is Life event, April 2021 On May 23, Chris…

Air National Guard City of Madison Dane County Environmental Justice PFCs or PFAS Public Participation Starkweather Creek Truax Wisconsin DNR Yahara Lakes

DNR repeatedly engages public in Marinette & Peshtigo on PFAS–but ignores Madison

May 19, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Heavily PFAS-contaminated Starkweather Creek water and sediments flood over a backyard garden in the Darbo-Worthington neighborhood in Madison, about a mile south of the Dane County Regional Airport and Truax…

City of Madison Environmental destruction Madison Oscar Mayer PCBs Pesticides Starkweather Creek Toxic Chemicals Toxins Wastewater Treatment Water Pollution Water quality Wetlands Wisconsin DNR

Oscar Mayer Sludge History, Part II

May 15, 2021 Jim Powell

The latest installment of Maria’s Powell’s saga of a corporation and the city that loved it…to its own detriment. OSCAR MAYER SLUDGE HISTORY, PART II <– NEW OSCAR MAYER’S INSECTICIDE…

Air National Guard Department of Defense Environmental health Environmental Justice F-35 Fighter jets Military Racial Justice Truax

Fighter jets, environmental education, and social justice do not mix

May 12, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

On May 10, F-16s from Madison’s Air National Guard Truax Field took off while MEJO’s Touyeng Xiong was teaching kids from the East Madison Community Center about birds, trees, and…

City of Madison Corporate greenwashing Earth Day Environmental health Oscar Mayer Pesticides Toxic Chemicals Wastewater Treatment

Oscar Mayer’s Earth Day, 1970: Spray chemical perfumes on sewage stench!

May 10, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

In 1970, just before Madison’s first Earth Day, Oscar Mayer installed a mile-long system that misted artificial chemical perfumes around its sludge lagoons–after decades of neighborhood complaints about the sewage…

Air Pollution City of Madison Madison-Kipp Corp. Racial disparities TCE Toxic Chemicals Worker health and safety

May Day! May Day! Madison-Kipp workers

May 1, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Above: Workers in Kipp factory Is anyone assessing risks to Madison Kipp workers? There’s a plume of highly toxic PCE and TCE under the plant vaporizing into the air workers…

Air Pollution City of Madison Environmental health Environmental Justice Madison-Kipp Corp.

Government won’t test air pollution in the Madison-Kipp neighborhood, so citizens are doing it themselves

May 1, 2021 Maria C. Powell, PhD

Above: View of Madison-Kipp’s Fair Oaks factory from the low-income apartments across the street. Clean Air Madison, MEJO, and Kipp neighborhood activists tried for many, many years–to no avail–to convince…

Again, Madison and Dane County pass the buck to the military on cleaning up burn pits. Why?

Mayor responds to Sustainable Madison Committee’s PFAS Recommendations

DNR repeatedly engages public in Marinette & Peshtigo on PFAS–but ignores Madison

Oscar Mayer Sludge History, Part II

Fighter jets, environmental education, and social justice do not mix

Oscar Mayer’s Earth Day, 1970: Spray chemical perfumes on sewage stench!

May Day! May Day! Madison-Kipp workers

Government won’t test air pollution in the Madison-Kipp neighborhood, so citizens are doing it themselves

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