Wisconsin Environmental Health Network Conference 2025
Some of you know that Maria was very artistic and one of her passions was using her childhood Barbie in various ways to communicate her (Maria’s) concern about plastic and…
Everyone deserves a healthy environment
Some of you know that Maria was very artistic and one of her passions was using her childhood Barbie in various ways to communicate her (Maria’s) concern about plastic and…
Maria Powell’s book, “Poisoning Paradise: An Environmental History of Madison,” is the topic of an upcoming Resistance Radio interview with Derrick Jensen on Sunday, September 15 at 5 pm CDT.…
Friends – please consider attending as I would love to see you there, and feel free to spread the word to others who knew Maria. MARIA POWELL: A CELEBRATION OF…
MEJO founder Dr. Maria C. Powell wrote three essays on Dr. King and his views on the “giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism,” each posted on previous MLK Jr…
From the Cap Times: Madison just lost one of its best environmental assets By Steve Elbow, Opinion Editor Maria Powell wasn’t just an activist. In Madison, she was the premier…
It is with great sadness that we announce that our founder, Maria Powell, has passed away. She will be missed greatly. OBITUARY | MARIA POWELL, 59 Maria Powell, longtime activist…
On October 26, the Midwest Environmental Advocates held a ceremony naming MEJO founder Maria Powell as one of its 2023 Bill Iwen Environmental Justice Awardees. MEJO Vice President Touyeng Xiong…
MEJO Executive Director Dr. Maria Powell is receiving an environmental justice award from the Midwest Environmental Advocates MARIA POWELL Maria Powell is a co-founder of Madison Environmental Justice Organization (MEJO),…
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…
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 newspaper The Cap Times published this column on October 8. Column Madison’s long history of racist planning and development By Maria Powell | executive director, Midwest Environmental Justice Organization…
Photo (Maria Powell): Bridges Golf Course ditch flowing into Starkweather Creek, where the highest levels of PFOS were found Nice coverage by a Madison newspaper of our Starkweather Creek sediment…
Earth Day 2020: Fifty years after first Earth Day, toxic environmental pollution still pervasive (Madison, Wis.)–New PFAS results, released before the COVID 19 lockdown, show significantly elevated levels of PFOS…
As we’ve experienced for twenty years in Madison, local government prefers to keep the public out of actions it takes–or does not take–regarding locally-occurring toxic pollution problems. The proposed Madison-Dane…
The PFOS amount in foam found in Starkweather Creek was 92,000 parts per trillion, far exceeding the laughable EPA advisory threshold level of 70 ppt. The mayor should be more…