Pesticides and PFAS should be tested at Oscar Mayer, Burke & Starkweather Creek
Oscar Mayer in 1947 (Wisconsin State Journal photo) In May 2020, a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) contracted by…
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What chemical exposures caused my cancer? Maybe all of them
In January this year I was diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer by oncologists at UW Hospital. I have outlived…
Why does the Dane County Lakes & Watershed Commission ignore toxic chemicals?
[Above: “Golf ditch” flowing through the Bridges Golf course into Starkweather Creek. Bridges Golf Course was built over the Superfund-qualified…
Eastsiders be warned! City hydrogeologist says Isthmus is more contaminated than Hartmeyer/Oscar Mayer site!
In today’s Wisconsin State Journal article by Chris Hubbuch, city hydrogeologist Brynn Bemis was quoted saying that the Hartmeyer land,…
Will “capping” arsenic at Hartmeyer housing protect vulnerable people?
[Image from the Collaborative on Health & the Environment, CHE] ~~~ City of Madison planners are working with developers from…
Corporate Behemoth Kraft-Heinz wants to cover up its poisons, Part II: Community resists
First, a little background… Part I described how Kraft Heinz purchased the Hartmeyer property, and how our current “remediation and…
Denialism
Department of Health Services
Department of Natural Resources
Doublespeak
Kraft Heinz
Oscar Mayer
WTF? DHS assesses health risks at proposed affordable housing site with “industrial” standards
[Above: Wisconsin state seal and logo–FORWARD. This post describes how the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) is helping developers…
Corporate Behemoth Kraft-Heinz wants to cover up its poisons with affordable housing (Part I)
[Above: Site of the proposed affordable and senior housing next to the old Kraft Heinz-Oscar Mayer site] This story has…
Lessons not learned by the Madison Water Utility?
A report compiled by Stacker was published in the Wisconsin State Journal today–Covert contamination: when organizations have failed to notify…
“What Else Can Hurt Lake Monona?” Part II: Let’s build Monona Terrace on top of a carcinogen-leaching landfill in the lake!
[Above: Trucks on shoreline as Monona Terrace construction begins at Law Park in 1995. Photo of a photo in DNR…
“Ecological restoration” in Dane County = Broadcast spraying of poisons
[All photos by Jim Powell, Sept. 14, 2022] Dane County Parks claims to use Integrated Pest Management (IPM). What a…
Are we getting dumber? Yes
During the 1990s, as a community environmental activist and academic researcher, I focused for several years on endocrine disruptors, especially…
Madison fouled its own nest, Part II: “A Loss of Public Trust” in the Madison Water Utility
[Above: A plan by John Nolen from 1910 shows a vision for Madison as a model city. The plan shows…
“What we do now may come back to haunt us in years or in decades.”
[Photo above from Wisconsin State Journal] If you think the concerns raised in yesterday’s post about skyrocketing Madison and Dane…
City of Madison
Dane County
Department of Defens
Oscar Mayer
Starkweather Creek
Superfund
Truax landfill
Madison’s Secret Superfund Site
[Above: Truax Landfill, summer 2021, looking south from Bridges golf course–abandoned nuclear rocket bunkers in the center, a landfill monitoring…