Truax Apartment residents on F-35s
On Saturday, September 14, Maria Powell (MEJO’s Executive Director) went door-to-door talking to Truax Apartments residents about what they think of the current F-16 fighter jet noise at the Truax…
Air National Guard
Air Pollution
Environmental Justice
Fish
Madison Water Utility
PFCs or PFAS
Starkweather Creek
Toxins
Truax
Water Pollution
PFAS regulations proposed by Wisconsin state elected officials
Photo: Truax Air National Guard base in Madison, heavily contaminated with PFAS. This is an interesting story about belated-action by Wisconsin officials to address PFAS, though given the political climate,…
City of Madison
Dane County
Department of Defense
Environmental Justice
EPA
Fish
Fish Advisory
Madison Water Utility
PFCs or PFAS
Public Health Madison Dane County
Starkweather Creek
stormwater runoff
Toxic Chemicals
Toxins
Truax
Water Pollution
Water quality
Wetlands
Wisconsin DNR
MEJO Report: Starkweather Creek & Toxic Stormwater Runoff in Madison, Wis.
On Earth Day, April 22, the Midwest Environmental Justice Organization released a report on its USEPA-funded Starkweather Creek Environmental Justice project. STARKWEATHER CREEK & TOXIC STORMWATER RUNOFF REPORT Pollution, governance…
Madison-Kipp Corp.
PCBs
Public Health Madison Dane County
stormwater runoff
Toxic Chemicals
Vapor intrusion
Water Pollution
Madison polluter doesn’t like what he reads
Graphic from the Nov 2, 2017 Isthmus weekly newspaper The Wisconsin State Journal published an October 28, 2017 article, “Best estimate is plume from Madison-Kipp plant could reach drinking water…
Community dinner kicks off new EPA-funded environmental justice project
MEJO and the East Madison Community Center held a community fish dinner on September 30 to close out the Center’s Hunger Action Month activities and kickoff MEJO’s new USEPA-funded Starkweather…
Kipp PCBs continue to pollute area along Isthmus bike path, even after multiple remediations
Kipp drain pipe carries toxic PCBs to city rain garden near bike path , STEVEN VERBURG sverburg@madison.com The company expects to find a solution soon, but critics say government regulators…
Environmental Justice
Madison-Kipp Corp.
Soil contamination
stormwater runoff
Toxic Chemicals
Toxins
Water Pollution
City of Madison not requiring Kipp to measure PCBs in raingarden?
This pictogram was used in this post; the splash pad has since been completed Since August we have tried to get the following information from the City of Madison on…
Wisconsin DNR not following its own rules
This really isn’t a surprise but it’s still very disturbing. WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL JUNE 3, 2016 WATER ENFORCEMENT | DNR DISREGARDING OWN RULES State audit finds DNR ignoring own rules…
“Sound-blocking fence” at Kipp still does not block sound!
A year later, it remains a puzzle how this piddly wooden fence is considered a “sound-blocking” fence by the City of Madison when it obviously just does not block sound!…
Air Pollution
Dioxins
Environmental Justice
Goodman Community Center
Madison-Kipp Corp.
Toxins
Wisconsin DNR
Worker health and safety
Madison-Kipp Clean Air Act violations: MEJO response to Kipp CEO
Madison-Kipp Corp President/CEO Tony Koblinski responded to our post regarding the EPA consent decree for his company’s Clean Air Act violations. Here is our response: Dear Mr. Koblinski: We offer…
EPA fines Madison-Kipp for air violations; Goodman Center gets A/C in the deal!
The view of Madison-Kipp Corp. from the Goodman Community Center; PCBs are being removed from the rain garden in the foreground The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fined Madison-Kipp Corporation…
City of Madison
Environmental health
Environmental Justice
Fish
Fish Advisory
PCBs
PFCs or PFAS
Public Participation
Racial disparities
Racism
Toxic Chemicals
Toxins
Water Pollution
Water quality
From the Archives: “The Mean Machine” on Lake Monona, Madison, Wis., 2006
In September 2006, MEJO held a fish advisory sign making party and fish fry at Brittingham Park on Monona Bay in Madison. Wis., to raise awareness of shoreline anglers about…
Does this sound like a sound blocking fence?
Click here to hear the “sound blocking” fence. The City of Madison wants to pay Madison-Kipp Corp. $79,000 for this “sound blocking” fence as part of a lease agreement. Does…
Goodman Community Center
Madison-Kipp Corp.
Soil contamination
stormwater runoff
Toxins
Water Pollution
City to Lease Rain Garden to Polluter
(High resolution version of above graphic here) SUMMARY: The City of Madison wishes to extend a lease with Madison-Kipp Corp. through 2023 that will allow Kipp to control the rain…
Air Pollution
Madison Water Utility
Madison-Kipp Corp.
Public Participation
Soil contamination
Toxins
Water Pollution
Wisconsin DNR
“Mother Nature, though wounded, begins to take care of it,” says polluter
At a March 19 public presentation, the president of Madison-Kipp Corporation described various pollution remediation actions that the aluminum parts manufacturer is belatedly being forced to do by the Wisconsin…