Category: City of Madison

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Resistance Radio to feature “Poisoning Paradise: An Environmental History of Madison”

September 9, 2024 Jim Powell

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.…

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Reflections on Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 15, 2024 Jim Powell

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…

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MEJO founder Dr. Maria C. Powell has passed away

November 14, 2023 Jim Powell

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…

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PFAS “at levels of concern” in Starkweather Creek? What does this mean?

March 27, 2023 Maria C. Powell, PhD

MEJO’s Touyeng Xiong stands next to PFAS “advisory” sign next to heavily PFAS-contaminated Starkweather Creek just downstream of the Dane County Regional Airport and Truax Air National Guard base, near…

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Plan Commissioners have no clue what environmental justice means–or don’t care?

December 15, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

This is a postscript to “Tell Madison Plan Commission to follow Environmental Justice policy on December 12″ (also pasted below). Did Plan Commissioners address (or even discuss) environmental justice on…

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Eastsiders be warned! City hydrogeologist says Isthmus is more contaminated than Hartmeyer/Oscar Mayer site!

December 13, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

In today’s Wisconsin State Journal article by Chris Hubbuch, city hydrogeologist Brynn Bemis was quoted saying that the Hartmeyer land, where coal was stored and fuel oil spilled–and just feet…

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Will “capping” arsenic at Hartmeyer housing protect vulnerable people?

December 12, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

~~~ City of Madison planners are working with developers from California (Lincoln Avenue Capital) to build 550+ units of affordable and senior housing on contaminated land next to the abandoned…

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Corporate Behemoth Kraft-Heinz wants to cover up its poisons, Part II: Community resists

December 11, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

First, a little background… Part I described how Kraft Heinz purchased the Hartmeyer property, and how our current “remediation and redevelopment” regulatory approach is intended to protect polluters like Kraft…

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Tell Madison Plan Commission to follow Environmental Justice policy on December 12

December 10, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

On Monday, December 12, the Madison Plan Commission will decide whether to approve conditional use zoning so developers from Santa Monica, CA can build 550+ units of dense “affordable” and…

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The only place low income people can afford to live in Madison? Whose fault is that?

December 8, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

~~~ In a recent

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Miracle! Or magic? Design teams can fix Lake Monona!

December 1, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

~~~ Big news! Three finalists in the Lake Monona Waterfront Design Challenge have figured out how the city can fix Lake Monona’s water quality problems–while also redeveloping the shoreline and…

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Corporate Behemoth Kraft-Heinz wants to cover up its poisons with affordable housing (Part I)

November 30, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

This story has many gaps and likely some inadvertent errors. It will be edited in coming days. Please let me know if you have corrections or anything to add: mariapowell@mejo.us.…

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WSJ thanks Madisonians for their privilege

November 25, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

“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…

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Postscript to Part IV: What about DNR’s municipal stormwater laws?

November 15, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

~~~ Part IV of “What Else Could Hurt Lake Monona?” told the story of how Monona Terrace failed to

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“What Else Can Hurt Lake Monona?” Part IV: Oops! Monona Terrace is not a model stormwater control facility after all

November 14, 2022 Maria C. Powell, PhD

{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…