Everyone deserves a healthy environment
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“Maybe in another few thousand years, the archeologists will find an ancient paddle board buried somewhere in Madison with a Clean Lakes Alliance sticker on it and an iPhone nearby–all…
The photo above depicts the “gas house” and “bridge” (red) Kraft-Heinz built on the Hartmeyer property west of the factory site, to pump natural gas to its power plant after…
A report compiled by Stacker was published in the Wisconsin State Journal today–Covert contamination: when organizations have failed to notify the public of drinking water issues in Wisconsin. The article…
~~~ Part IV of “What Else Could Hurt Lake Monona?” told the story of how Monona Terrace failed to
{Above-Monona Terrace, September 2022. Photo-Maria Powell ~~~ See the postscript to this piece As described in Part III, Monona Terrace proponents argued that the center would not only not cause…
***** According to our favorite local corporate greenwashers, Clean Lakes Alliance, leaves are to blame for the sorry state or our lakes. Yup. Leaves. It follows that trees–the sources of…
***** In a letter to the editor in Sunday’s Wisconsin State Journal, Madison resident Rich Carney points out the denialism and hypocrisy of the city’s Monona lakeshore redesign plans. “Waterfront…
~~~ hen government shifts from merely presenting the facts on a public project to an orchestrated campaign that avoids any negatives, Joe Taxpayer never knows if he’s getting the truth…